A Fine Collection of Boer War Medals

Pair: Staff Serjeant-Major C. Peters, Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (588 St-Serjt.-Maj., Kitchener’s F.S.); Coronation 1902, bronze, unnamed, very fine (2) £220-260

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Boer War Medals.

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Sergeant-Major C. Peters, Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts, was mentioned in Kitchener’s despatches ‘For good conduct in north-western transvaal, November-December 1901’ (London Gazette 8 March 1902). With a note stating that Peters was of German extraction and was in the Colonial Contingent at the Coronation of 1902.