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Medal, campaign   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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George William de Saulles
Title
Medal, campaign
Object type Wars of empire/wars; wars
Classification: 278
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English: Queen's South Africa Medal 1899-1902 with four bars Medal awarded to 520 Private James Henry Escott, 2nd NZMR, 3 Coy. silver medal; four bars; plain straight swivelling suspender; with ribbon obverse- crowned and veiled head of Queen Victoria and legend VICTORIA REGINA ET IMPERATRIX reverse- Britannia with a flag in her left hand and holding out a laurel wreath in her right towards an advancing party of soldiers; in the background are two warships; below the wreath, in two lines- 1899-1900 in relief; around top- SOUTH AFRICA Four bars- SOUTH AFRICA 1901 - ORANGE FREE STATE - JOHANNESBUG - CAPE COLONY ribbon- red with two dark blue stripes and a broad orange central stripe named on edge- J.H. ESCOTT 2ND N.Z. CONT.
Date 24 Mar 2014; 1899-1902; 01 Apr 2014; Queen Victoria (1837 - 1901)-English reign; 1901
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diameter: 36mm
width: 32mm
notes: medal

notes: ribbon
institution QS:P195,Q758657
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2014.21.35
Place of creation Republic of South Africa; England; South Africa
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Collection of Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, 2014.21.35

Gift of Ron Porter
Notes Queen's South Africa Medal with four clasps Medal awarded to 520 Private James Henry Escott, 2nd NZMR, 3 Coy. Clasps for- Johannesburg, Cape Colony, Orange Free State and South Africa 1901 Occupation- farmer; address at time of enlistment- Woodville, Wairarapa; next of kin- A Escott (brother) of same address; Died- 28.7.1916; buried- Karori Cemetery, Area 2 Block A, Row 15, Plot 77; previous service- Woodville Rifles; also served with Provisional Transvaal Constabulary; Member of Parliament for Pahiatua 1910-1916. James Henry Escott was 432738 Lieutenant Ken Porter's great-uncle, the brother of Ken's maternal grandmother Harriett Cecelia Escott who married his grandfather George Burton Russell in Wellington on 1 August 1892. QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL 11th October 1899-31st May 1902
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