A Collection of Medals to the 46th Foot and its Successor Units

Pair: Sergeant A. Jackson, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg (5323 Corl. A. Jackson, 2: D. of C. Lt. Inft.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5323 Serjt: A. Jackson. D. of C.L.I.) number partially officially corrected on KSA, heavy contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £160-£200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 46th Foot and its Successor Units.

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A. Jackson was born in 1873 and attested for the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry on 15 September 1897. He served with the 2nd Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War, and was present at the Battle of Paardeberg on 18 February 1900, when, in the ‘Cornish Charge’, the Battalion suffered total casualties of 28 killed and 52 wounded.

Sold with copied medal roll extracts and other research.