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5 December 2024

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№ 455

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5 December 2024

Hammer Price:
£130

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, top two clasps affixed together but loose on riband (8668 Pte. D. Webber. Welsh Regt.) good very fine £100-£140

David Webber, a native of Neath, attested for the Welsh Regiment and served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War. A letter home to his mother from Modder River, dated 5 February 1900 was published in the Cambria Daily Leader edition of 8 March 1900.

Sold with copied medal rolls, the loose clasps, Transvaal and South Africa 1901, being confirmed on a supplementary medal roll.

The first clasp on this medal is Relief of Kimberley, not Defence of Kimberley.