Medals & Coins, Arms & Armour - 25th May 2022
Lot 79
A Great War Trio to Private Jack Dempsey
Estimate £80 - £120 | Hammer £70
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Description
A Great War Trio to Private Jack Dempsey, 12th Infantry (Pretoria Regiment) and 8th South African Infantry: 1914-15 Star (PTE J. DEMPSEY 12TH INFANTRY); British War Medal 1914-20 (PTE J. DEMPSEY. 8TH S.A.I.); Victory Medal, bilingual issue (PTE J. DEMPSEY. 8TH S.A.I.); together with a Pretoria Citizens Service Medal, unnamed; all good very fine or better. [4] Offered with copy service documents
Pte Dempsey previously saw service in the Second Anglo-Boer War with the Royal Scots Fusiliers, and in peacetime he worked as a railwayman.