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For sale is a Queens South Africa Medal 91899 – 1902) with 5 clasps CAPE COLONY, ORANGE FREE STATE, TRANSVAAL, SOUTH AFRICA 1901, SOUTH AFRICA 1902, impressed named 3678 PTE J.H. BOWDEN. N.S.W. M.R. it comes with copies of service record, medal roll and newspaper article.

Trooper John Herbert Bowden was born in 1878 in Burra, South Australia.

He was working as a boundary rider when he enlisted for the Boer War on 6/1/1902, at the time he was living in Roper St, Adelaide.

He served with ‘D’ Squadron, 2nd Regiment New South Wales Rifles.