Five: Acting 2nd Class Warrant Officer F. Boschen, 2nd South African Infantry, Late Cape Mounted Rifles and Natal Police, Queen's South Africa, four clasps, Cape Colony, Wepener, Transvaal, Wittebergen (3279 Pte., Cape M.R.); King's South Africa, two clasps (3279 Pte., Cape M.R.); Natal, one clasp, 1906 (Tpr., Natal Police); British War Medal 1914-18 (A./2nd C./W.O., 2nd S.A.I.); Coronation 1911, privately engraved, 'No. 2938 Tpr. F. Boschen, Natal Police', extremely fine (5)

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Five: Acting 2nd Class Warrant Officer F. Boschen, 2nd South African Infantry, Late Cape Mounted Rifles and Natal Police, Queen's South Africa, four clasps, Cape Colony, Wepener, Transvaal, Wittebergen (3279 Pte., Cape M.R.); King's South Africa, two clasps (3279 Pte., Cape M.R.); Natal, one clasp, 1906 (Tpr., Natal Police); British War Medal 1914-18 (A./2nd C./W.O., 2nd S.A.I.); Coronation 1911, privately engraved, 'No. 2938 Tpr. F. Boschen, Natal Police', extremely fine (5)

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Acting 2nd Class Warrant Officer F. Boschen was wounded during the defence of Wepener.

During the Great War he served in France with the 2nd South African Infantry and qualified as a Sniper 1st Class. Again wounded in action on 28.9.1917, by a gunshot to his right thigh, he subsequently died of blood poisoning on 23.3.1918.