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QSA (3) Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (8000 Pte. T. Bethell. Vol: Coy. Rl: Welsh Fus).

Together with silver plated half hunter presentation pocket watch, outer case inscribed ‘Presented to Pte. Thos. Bithell, by the inhabitants of Hawarden Parish, on his return home from active service in S. Africa, with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers’, this missing secondary dial hand, the medal with slight edge bruising.

Thomas Bithell was born in the Parish of Saughall, near Chester, Cheshire, and enlisted for the Royal Welsh Fusiliers at Wrexham on 9 February 1902, aged 20 years 1 month, a collier by trade. He served just 132 days in South Africa from 3 March 1902, with the 3rd Volunteer Special Service Company, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He was discharged on termination of his engagement, 10 August 1902.

Sold with small portrait photograph of recipient in uniform, a photograph within a glazed small white metal locket.