A Fine Collection of Boer War Medals to Medical Services, the Church and the Press

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp, bronze issue (10935 Tonga Syce Shahda S & T. Corps) officially engraved naming, suspension a little bent and slack, polished, otherwise nearly very fine and rare £200-£300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Boer War Medals to Medical Services, the Church and the Press.

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10935 Shahda is confirmed as a Tong Syce on the roll of ‘Messrs. C. Dhanji Bhai Company’s TONGA TRAIN’ as being entitled to the bronze medal (and clasps for Cape Colony and Orange Free State ‘if sanctioned’).

A despatch in the London Gazette of 16 April 1901, reports: ‘My thanks are due to Khem Bahadur Dhanjibhoy, a Parsee gentleman, long resident in the Punjab, who presented tongas for ambulance purposes. These tongas were horsed and fully equipped with drivers and all necessary gear. They proved most useful.’

Sold with copied medal roll and gazette entry.