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Auction: 25001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 238

Frontier Mounted Rifles

In 1876, Lieutenant-Colonel E. O. Hutchinson raised a unit in Cathcart District, in the Eastern Province, with the title of the Cathcart Mounted Rifles, with a strength of 80; by the following year that strength had increased to 250 men. The unit was re-titled the Frontier Mounted Rifles in 1878.

295 Medals were awarded to the Frontier Mounted Riflemen, 261 of them with the '1877-8' clasp.

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1877-8 (Pte. J. Van Dyk Frontr. Mtd. Rifles.), good very fine

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Estimate
£300 to £500

Starting price
£240