Lot 37
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Three: Lord Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner of St. James's London and Cape Town, High Commissioner of South Africa 1897-1908, Queen's South Africa, three clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Sir A. Milner, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., High Commissioner); Jubilee 1897; United States of America, Distinguished Service Medal (Army), bronze and enamel, the rim officially numbered, '672', minor contact wear, generally very fine

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Three: Lord Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner of St. James's London and Cape Town, High Commissioner of South Africa 1897-1908, Queen's South Africa, three clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Sir A. Milner, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., High Commissioner); Jubilee 1897; United States of America, Distinguished Service Medal (Army), bronze and enamel, the rim officially numbered, '672', minor contact wear, generally very fine
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Lot Essay

No figure looms larger over the Boer War than Alfred George Milner, the 1st Viscount Milner of St. James's London and Cape Town, [K.G.], [G.C.B.], [G.C.M.G.]. His extraordinary career embodies the origins of the struggle, the course of the War itself and the reconstruction of South Africa after peace through to the creation of the Union in 1910.