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Auction: 25001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 169

3rd Battalion, 60th Foot (King's Royal Rifle Corps)

The unit arrived to join Lord Chelmsford’s Relief Column just in time to fight in the Battle of Gingindlovu on 1 April 1879 and the following relief of the Siege of Eshowe. Following the conclusion of hostilities, the unit was left behind on garrison duty in South Africa, being there when the First Boer War broke out. They would share in the Battle of Ingogo River and also the disastrous Battle of Majuba Hill in early 1881.

999 Medals issued to the unit, 964 with the clasp '1879'.

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (1728. Pte. G. Faulkner. 3/60th. Foot.), nearly extremely fine

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Estimate
£600 to £800

Starting price
£480