Sudan Pair to The Lan Fus, POW And Later Wounded In The Boer War

Queens Sudan Medal 5298 PTE W RATHBONE 2/LAN FUS , Khedives Sudan Medal bar Khartoum 5298 PTE W RATHBONE 2ND L F

William Whittle Rathbone a 20 year old labourer from Bolton enlisted into the Lancashire Fusiliers in 1895 , he served in the Sudan and in the Boer War with the Lanc Fus detachment of the 5th Mounted infantry and was taken Prisoner at Vryheid on the 11th of Decembe...  read more

Code: 50639

QSA To a Sjt 6th Inniskilling Dragoons, Injured And Died

QSA one bar Cape Colony 2740 SERJT A HANWELL 6/DRGNS

The regimental history states that on the 22nd of January 1900 at Kuilfontein Sergt Hanwells horse was shot and he had to take shelter behind an anthill in the blazing sun under Boer fire, the exposure to the sun later led to his death

medal with original ribbon and in dark toned mint condition  read more

Code: 50476

1914/15 Trio And Navy LSGC ( Vic ) To RMLI, KIA

1914/15 Trio PO2996 PTE J WOODING RMLI Navy LSGC ( Vic ) JOHN WOODING PTE NO 2996 PORTS RMLI

John Wooding from Tolworth in Surbiton was killed in action aged 52 aboard HMS Ramsey on the 8th of August 1915

SS or RMS The Ramsey was a passenger steamer operated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company from 1912 to 1914. She had been built in 1895 as Duke of Lancast...  read more

Code: 50496

A GSM Bar Palestine To a Ryl Sussex Casualty

GSM one bar Palestine 2021963PTE T J KING R SUSS R


Sergt Thomas Joseph King died on the third of December 1943 and is buried in Brighton. He is listed in the CWGC as mentioned in despatches but I cannot find a London Gazette entry for this . I had this once before and it turned out the recipient had received a C in C 's commendation for Palestine and the family had listed...  read more

Code: 50302