A Small Collection of Medals to The Buffs, the East Kent Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (7352 Pte. H. Stevens, East Kent Regt.) good very fine £60-£80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Medals to The Buffs, the East Kent Regiment.

View
Collection

Henry Howard Stevens was born at Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, in 1871 and attested for the East Kent Regiment on 1 February 1900, having previously served in the Regiment’s 2nd Volunteer Battalion. He served with the Second Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War from 16 February 1900 to 9 June 1901, and was discharged on 15 June 1901, after 1 year and 135 days’ service.

Sold with copied record of service and medal roll extracts, which show that the recipient is entitled to the clasps Cape Colony, Natal, Orange Free State, Transvaal, and South Africa 1901 (the roll annotated ‘Medals issued 2-9-01; clasps [excluding the date clasp] issued 7-4-02; clearly the recipient never got around to affixing the clasp to his medal).