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Queens South Africa Medal to private Francis Dockett, who died of enteric fever in South Africa, March 1900, whilst serving with the Duke of Edinburgh’s Own Volunteer Rifles.

Queens South Africa Medal (1899-1902), with 1 clasp CAPE COLONY, impressed named 1180 P^TE  F. DOCKETT. D OF E OWN V.R. Comes with copies medal rolls, soldiers’ effects, census 1881, passenger lists 1898 and newspaper articles.

Francis James Dockett was born in April 1876, at Horrabridge, Devon, he emigrated to South Africa on 5/2/1898 with the ship passenger manifest listing his occupation as a painter. He enlisted into the Duke of Edinburgh’s Own Volunteer Rifles (service number 1180) and unfortunately died of disease (Enteric fever) at Towns River 8/3/1900. The memorial in Exeter “Wiltshire Regiment”, list the names on the memorial published by Western Times, it incorrectly records his unit as “The Duke of Edinburgh’s Wiltshire Regiment”.