The Barrett J. Carr Collection of Boer War Medals

Four: Private C. E. Oliver, Lancashire Fusiliers, late Royal Lancaster Regiment, who died in Malta in September 1915 - of wounds received in Gallipoli

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (8119 Pte. C. Oliver, Rl. Lanc. Regt.); 1914-15 Star (18153 Pte. C. E. Oliver, Lan. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (18153 Pte. C. E. Oliver, Lan. Fus.), together with related Memorial Plaque (Charles Edwin Oliver), good very fine and better (5) £350-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Barrett J. Carr Collection of Boer War Medals.

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Charles Edwin Oliver, a native of Manchester, served in the 3rd Battalion, Royal Lancaster Regiment during the Boer War. Re-enlisting in the 1st Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers in the Great War, he died on Malta on 19 September 1915, of wounds received in Gallipoli, and is buried there in the Pieta Military Cemetery. Aged 38 years, he left a widow, Ellen Oliver, of 25 Rodney Street, Salford, Manchester.