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On 11 Jan 02, his death from dysentery was reported:

The QSA to F C Cass of the Dundee TG. The medal was last seen at DNW in 2002 when it sold for £220. The estimate is £180-£220.

I think it is worth more than that, it is a very pleasing medal!

Very much so. I'm sure it will sell for more than that. I didn't have very much information on the recipient other than his service in the TG.

Hi all

Cass was one of mine some years ago. The DNW auction sold a similar one recently, with a few extra silver badges, and this went for a little more than the guide price.......

It would be good to get one with some real history, pictures etc.

Doug.

The group to Sgt C Smart.


Picture courtesy of Spink

DCM Ed VII (4390 Corpl: C. Smart. Leicester: Regt)
QSA (4) Tal DoL Tr OFS (4390 Corl. C. Smart, 1: Leic: Regt)
KSA (2) (4390 Serjt: C. Smart. Leicester: Regt)

Surname officially renamed on 1st and 2nd, generally very fine (3)

DCM LG 27.9.1901 4390 Corporal C. Harris, 1st Bn. Leicestershire Regt.

The 1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment's Queen's South Africa Medal Roll annotates 'Alias C. Smart' next to 4390 Sergeant C. Harris medal entitlement. The King's South Africa Medal Roll reverts to '4390 Sgt. C. Smart'. Thus explaining the correction of the naming of the first two medals.

Serving as Harris throughout the Boer War, Charles Albert Smart distinguished himself, 'On the 29th October [1899], the battalion formed part of the 8th Brigade, when it became engaged in the action at Lombard's Kop, on which occasion, the four mules of its Maxim gun having been shot and the native drivers having run away, it became subjected to a very heavy fire from all kinds of projectiles and the gun had to be abandoned. Corporals Gillespie and Harris, for their endeavour to recover it by hand, were later awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for service in the field. The casualties were three men killed and 18 wounded.'

Smart died in 1912.