Pair: Private J. Oglethorpe, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, Queen's South Africa, three clasps, Defence of Kimberley, Orange Free State, Transvaal (3708 Pte., 1st L.N. Lanc. Regt.); Kimberley Star, silver (Hallmarks for Birmingham, 1900), the last lacking upper brooch-bar, sometime lacquered, good very fine and better (2)

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Pair: Private J. Oglethorpe, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, Queen's South Africa, three clasps, Defence of Kimberley, Orange Free State, Transvaal (3708 Pte., 1st L.N. Lanc. Regt.); Kimberley Star, silver (Hallmarks for Birmingham, 1900), the last lacking upper brooch-bar, sometime lacquered, good very fine and better (2)

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Lot Essay

Half of the 1st Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment was besieged in Kimberley, the only Imperial Regiment present.