Queens South Africa Medal Eatough 1st Loyal North Lancashire Regiment pre WW1 for Sale

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Queens South Africa Medal Eatough 1st Loyal North Lancashire Regiment pre WW1 For Sale

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Queens South Africa Medal Eatough 1st Loyal North Lancashire Regiment pre WW1:
$324.40

For sale is a Queen\'s south Africa Medal with 6clasps, BELMONT, MODDER RIVER, ORANGE FREE STATE, TRANSVAAL, SOUTH AFRICA 1901,SOUTH AFRICA 1902, impressed named 4642 PTE J. EATOUGH. 1ST L.N. LANC. REGT.Which comes with copies of service records and medal roll.

John Eatough was born in Blackburn, Lancashire,about 1871. A weaver by trade he was serving with the 3rd Battalion EastLancashire Regiment (Militia) when he enlisted into the North LancashireRegiment on 1/10/1894.

Initially posted to the 2nd Battalion, he servedwith them until being transferred to the 1st Battalion on 24/1/1896.

He served in Ceylon from 14/12/1897 – 10/2/1899and then to South Africa for service in the Boer War 11/2/1899 – 22/9/1902.

On the completion of his regular service, he transferredto the Army Reserve on 30/10/1902 serving until discharging in 1906. Hereturned to the cotton trade as the 1911 census records him living in Blackburnworking as a Tackler Power-Loom Overlooker.

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