MEDALS VICTORIA - SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL AND 1877-8-9 BAR WITH INDIA GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL AND BURMA 1887-1889 BAR (1492 PTE G ADAMS, 2/24TH FOOT AND 2ND BATTALION, S WALES BORDERERS) [2] South Africa, issued 1880, with 1877-8-9 bar, swivel suspender. Obv: profile bust with VICTORIA REGINA legend. Rev: lion and protea bush with SOUTH AFRICA above. Edge: officially engraved 1492, PTE. G. ADAMS, 2/24TH. FOOT (with letters of abbreviations superscript); with length of ribbon. India General Service, issued 1889, with Burma 1887-89 bar, swivel suspender. Obv: profile bust with VICTORIA REGINA legend. Rev: Victory crowning seated warrior. Edge: officially engraved 1492 Pte. G. Adams 2nd. Bn. S. Wales Bord: in script (with last letters of abbreviations superscript); with length of ribbon; the medals mounted on a cut card backing with notes to reverse. 163 grams total. Near extremely fine; few small marks. The Burma bar rare; an interesting pair. [2] Literature BBM 70;MY 117xiii/BBM 83/MY 127iv. Footnotes Private G. Adams is listed on the rolls for the 2nd Battalion but did not take part in the famous siege at Rorke's Drift, following the massacre at Isandlwana in the Zulu war of 1879. The 24th Regiment of Foot became the South Wales Borderers in 1881.
MEDALS VICTORIA - SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL AND 1877-8-9 BAR WITH INDIA GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL AND BURMA 1887-1889 BAR (1492 PTE G ADAMS, 2/24TH FOOT AND 2ND BATTALION, S WALES BORDERERS) [2] South Africa, issued 1880, with 1877-8-9 bar, swivel suspender. Obv: profile bust with VICTORIA REGINA legend. Rev: lion and protea bush with SOUTH AFRICA above. Edge: officially engraved 1492, PTE. G. ADAMS, 2/24TH. FOOT (with letters of abbreviations superscript); with length of ribbon. India General Service, issued 1889, with Burma 1887-89 bar, swivel suspender. Obv: profile bust with VICTORIA REGINA legend. Rev: Victory crowning seated warrior. Edge: officially engraved 1492 Pte. G. Adams 2nd. Bn. S. Wales Bord: in script (with last letters of abbreviations superscript); with length of ribbon; the medals mounted on a cut card backing with notes to reverse. 163 grams total. Near extremely fine; few small marks. The Burma bar rare; an interesting pair. [2] Literature BBM 70;MY 117xiii/BBM 83/MY 127iv. Footnotes Private G. Adams is listed on the rolls for the 2nd Battalion but did not take part in the famous siege at Rorke's Drift, following the massacre at Isandlwana in the Zulu war of 1879. The 24th Regiment of Foot became the South Wales Borderers in 1881.
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