BOER WAR/WWI KIA MEDALS

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QSA bars Orange Free State and Cape Colony, KSA bars 01/02, medals nicely toned and minty. "MOWN DOWN LIKE SHEEP" - A Boer War pair ghost dated to:- 1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment 15th Brigade, 5th Division KIA 6th March 1915 - Robert Ashton No.:- 12166, age 32 years. His friend, Private Howe, wrote to his mother on the death of Robert Ashton "That was the worst time I had when Robert Ashton got killed. We made a charge but we got fast in the barbed wire. They cut us down like sheep. We could not get over the wire so we had to return to our trench, what was left of us. There was only 45 left when we did get back. I had a very near shave myself. I got two bullets throught my hat and one in my haversack so you can see I have been very lucky getting here". SOUTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN:- Private Ashton went through the South African war unscathed. He finished his legal term of service when the war was over, but when hostilities started he reinlisted. As he was an experienced soldier the War Office Authorities asked him to re-train new recruits, he declined saying he would go to the front where the fighting and danger was and then people could not say he was afraid. So he went into the ranks as a soldier. He came back on a short leave to Marple at Christmas to 5 Townley Terrace, Canal Street, Marple, Cheshire, to visit his parents Sam read more

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