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^{For sale is a Queen’s south Africa Medal with 6 clasps, BELMONT, MODDER RIVER, ORANGE FREE STATE, TRANSVAAL, SOUTH AFRICA 1901, SOUTH AFRICA 1902, impressed named 4642 PTE J. EATOUGH. 1ST L.N. LANC. REGT. Which comes with copies of service records and medal roll.}

^{John Eatough was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, about 1871. A weaver by trade he was serving with the 3rd Battalion East Lancashire Regiment (Militia) when he enlisted into the North Lancashire Regiment on 1/10/1894.}

^{Initially posted to the 2nd Battalion, he served with them until being transferred to the 1st Battalion on 24/1/1896.}

^{He served in Ceylon from 14/12/1897 – 10/2/1899 and then to South Africa for service in the Boer War 11/2/1899 – 22/9/1902.}

^{On the completion of his regular service, he transferred to the Army Reserve on 30/10/1902 serving until discharging in 1906. He returned to the cotton trade as the 1911 census records him living in Blackburn working as a Tackler Power-Loom Overlooker.}