A Collection of Boer War Medals to the Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (A. Rayner, Pte. R.M.L.I., H.M.S. Niobe) small impressed naming, minor edge bruising, good very fine £140-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Boer War Medals to the Royal Navy.

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Albert Rayner was born in Bethnal Green, London on 9 October 1874. A Blacksmith by occupation, he enlisted into the Royal Marines on 5 December 1893. For service in the Boer War he received the Queen’s medal with clasp for Cape Colony. 129 one-clasp Queen’s South Africa Medals were awarded to the ship’s company of H.M.S. Niobe, around 60 of them to men of the Royal Marine Light Infantry. Private Rayner was discharged by purchase on 12 June 1901 and enrolled into the Royal Fleet Reserve in July 1902. Sold with copied service paper.