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Auction: 25001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 167

52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot)

Just 5 Medals issued to the 52nd Foot, Lieutenants Boyle (clasp '1879'), Odell (clasp '1879') & Hutton (no clasp) and Privates Flynn (clasp '1879') & Wansbon (no clasp).

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1877-8-9 (1553. Pte. R. Wansbon. 52nd. Foot.), clasp neatly affixed, good very fine and rare

Richard Wansbon/Wanston is noted as serving on Malta with the unit in 1871 and likely served as batman to Lieutenant Charles Molyneux Hutton during the Zulu Wars. Hutton arrived in the Cape with the Drafts and served with the Field Force in the later phases of the war. He did not enter Zululand itself and thus earned the Medal without clasp.

Wansbon was discharged in 1880 and his Service Number variously recorded as 1553 & 1558.

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Estimate
£1,400 to £1,800

Starting price
£1100