Four: Lieutenant M.M. Rushton, 5th South African Infantry, Late Cape Police and Bechuanaland Rifles, Cape of Good Hope General Service, one clasp, Bechuanaland (Cpl., C. Pol.); Queen's South Africa, four clasps, Defence of Mafeking, Transvaal, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901 [last two clasps unofficially riveted] (118 Pte., Bec'Land Rif.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt.), very fine or better (4)

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Four: Lieutenant M.M. Rushton, 5th South African Infantry, Late Cape Police and Bechuanaland Rifles, Cape of Good Hope General Service, one clasp, Bechuanaland (Cpl., C. Pol.); Queen's South Africa, four clasps, Defence of Mafeking, Transvaal, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901 [last two clasps unofficially riveted] (118 Pte., Bec'Land Rif.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt.), very fine or better (4)

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Lieutenant M.M. Rushton was one of 125 men of the Bechuanaland Rifles to serve through the siege of Mafeking. During the Great War he served in East Africa as Lieutenant in the 5th South African Infantry.