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William Henry Gale Australian/South African 10 years 3 months ago #22111

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Sorry Adrian but, as Frank says, that is a renamed medal.
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William Henry Gale Australian/South African 10 years 3 months ago #22121

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It is not all bad, I dare say he might have had that example named to himself at some point in his lifetime, his original appears to have been issued on the 13th of February 1903, interestingly, he is shown in WO100/290 as also having served with the Orange River Colony Police, the OFS clasp appears to have been crossed out.
A look at his other medals and any medal cards in Pretoria would be well worth it here I feel

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William Henry Gale Australian/South African 10 years 3 months ago #22126

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It's a great pity that the QSA is so obviously renamed. It would have been a rather decent group otherwise.

Rory old man, I am astounded that you actually placed a bid on this group!!

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Adrian
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William Henry Gale Australian/South African 10 years 3 months ago #22128

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It looked so enticing Adrian :silly: Rush of blood to the head stuff.

Anyway, as I said, I was jolly lucky your namesake wanted it more :P

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Rory wrote: I was jolly lucky your namesake wanted it more :P


That's for sure ;)
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William Henry Gale Australian/South African 10 years 3 months ago #22132

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Hi everyone

Yes you are all right.

Closer inspection shows that the rim has been filed down at the top near the attachment of the suspender.

Such is life sometimes !

But I will get the papers from Rory.

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Adrian (No2)

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