CASUALTY 2nd ROYAL FUSILIERS RARE PRE WW1 BRITISH ARMY QUEENS SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL

Description

Boer War Queen’s South Africa Medal to Private Hunter, who served with the 2nd Battalion (City of London Regiment) Royal Fusiliers, who died of Enteric Fever on the 6th April 1900 at Modder Spruit.

Queen’s South Africa Medal measures 36mm wide and is a circular silver medal with claw and swivel ribbon bar suspension, with CAPE COLONY, TUGELA HEIGHTS & RELIEF OF LADYSMITH clasps; the face with the veiled crowned head and shoulders portrait of Queen Victoria facing left, circumscribed ‘VICTORIA REGINA ET IMPERATRIX’ (Victoria Queen and Empress), signed ‘G. W. de Saulles’ (for George William de Saulles, 1862-1903, Chief Engraver to the Royal Mint); the reverse with the full-length helmeted figure of Britannia, a standard in her left hand, her right arm extended with a laurel wreath, her shield and trident on the ground behind her, soldiers marching in a landscape beyond, warships near the coast beyond, signed ‘G. W. de Saulles’; officially re – impressed named to 5776 PTE W. HUNTER, 2ND ROYAL FUS: on correct ribbon. The medal was instituted in 1899 to be awarded to participants in the Boer War.

The medal roll for the 2nd Battalion shows Hunter as having died on the 6th April 1900, with further research showing he died of Enteric Fever at Modder Spruit.