War Medals

SOUTH AFRICA GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL 1877-79 . 99TH.FOOT

Bar, 1879', correctly engraved naming - 862 Sergt. R. MARSH, 99th. Foot (Duke of Edinburgh's (Lanarkshire) Regiment, subsequently The Wiltshire Regiment) : The Regiment was in action against the Zulus at Eshowe in January 1879 when a significant section consisting of ten Officers and three Companies became trapped within the besieged garrison alongside the 3rd.Foot. It was again in action at the Battle of Gingindhlovu on 2 April 1879. Sergeant Richard Marsh is listed on the medal roll completed in Bermuda in September 1880, as "being engaged against the Zulus in 1879" wherein he is also recorded as "Dead". (He apparently died in South Africa of a cyst on the liver.) : Sold with verification, medal Court mounted for display purposes NEF £985