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QSA (2) Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg (2923. Pte: A. Manders. 1/Oxfd: L.I.) nearly extremely fine £240-£280

Arthur Manders was born in Watlington, Oxfordshire, and attested for the Oxfordshire Light Infantry at Oxford on 6 January 1888. He served in India and Burma from September 1890 to January 1896, and in South Africa during the Boer War from December 1899 to 2 December 1900, and was wounded in action at Paardeberg on 18 February 1900.

He was discharged on 27 April 1901.

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QSA (4) Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, date clasp block unofficially attached (7338 Pte. E. C. L. Graham. Vol. Coy: Oxford: L.I.) fitted with contemporary top silver pin brooch



Edwin Charles Laurie Graham was born in 1876, at Oxford. In the 1911 Census he is recorded as a 35 year old cap and hat maker, residing at 87 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford. He died in Oxford in 1962.

Sold with an unattributed newspaper cutting regarding the return of the Oxford Volunteers from the war in South Africa, in which Private Graham is named as having served with “A” Company; a small portrait photograph of the recipient in uniform wearing his medal;