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QUEEN'S SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL: ROYAL IRISH FUSILIERS : KILLED IN ACTION RIETVLEI 16 JULY 1900 :
Bars, 'Cape Colony', 'Tugela Heights', 'Relief of Ladysmith', 'Transvaal', officially impressed naming - 4004 Pte. J.FOX. Rl. Irish Fus. (Royal Irish Fusiliers) : (PRIVATE J. FOX - Served in South Africa with the 2nd. Battalion, Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers), where on 16 July 1900 the Tigerpoort-Witpoort Ridge, east of Irene, was fiercely attacked by a Boer force of some 2000 men, with eight guns : "On this occasion the detachment at Witpoort under Major Munn, 2nd.Royal Irish Fusiliers, consisting of three companies of that Regiment and sixty men of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles, with two pom-pom guns greatly distinguished themselves. By 3pm. the enemy fell back and at dusk they were in full retreat eastward." The Battalion had five men killed, with a further fourteen wounded and three men were taken prisoner : The recipient was among those KILLED IN ACTION during this engagement.) : Sold with verification; copy Casualty Roll entry and related research : Medal mounted on long length of original ribbon, one very slight edge bruise below the 's' in Irish but otherwise GVF - £595