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Pair: Corporal E. Simmons, Military Foot Police Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivets between fifth and sixth clasps (511 Corpl: E. Simmoms. M.F. Police.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (511 Corpl: E. Simmons. Mil: Ft: Police) contact marks and obverses of both medals (including clasp facings) heavily polished and worn, therefore poor to fair, the reverses and naming details nearly very fine (2) £120-£160 --- Edward Simmons was born in Clerkenwell, London, in 1865 and attested for the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in London on 18 June 1885, the 70th Anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. Transferring to the Military Foot Police on 12 April 1896, he served with them in South Africa during the Boer War, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 21 October 1904. He was discharged at Dover on 17 June 1906, after 21 years’ service, of which 7 years and 81 days had been spent overseas. Sold together with the recipient’s original Parchment Certificate of Discharge.
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Pair: Corporal E. Simmons, Military Foot Police Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivets between fifth and sixth clasps (511 Corpl: E. Simmoms. M.F. Police.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (511 Corpl: E. Simmons. Mil: Ft: Police) contact marks and obverses of both medals (including clasp facings) heavily polished and worn, therefore poor to fair, the reverses and naming details nearly very fine (2) £120-£160 --- Edward Simmons was born in Clerkenwell, London, in 1865 and attested for the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in London on 18 June 1885, the 70th Anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. Transferring to the Military Foot Police on 12 April 1896, he served with them in South Africa during the Boer War, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 21 October 1904. He was discharged at Dover on 17 June 1906, after 21 years’ service, of which 7 years and 81 days had been spent overseas. Sold together with the recipient’s original Parchment Certificate of Discharge.
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