Queen's South Africa Medal 1899-1902 (4) bars to Royal Horse Artillery, Drowned

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Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, (4) clasps to Driver Strivens, Royal Horse Artillery, Drowned 1909
(4) clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901
6463 Dvr: B. T. Strivens. R.H.A.
Good very fine
Benjamin Thomas Strivens was born in Camberwell, Surrey, in 1881 and attested for the Royal Field Artillery in London on 3 March 19001. He served with ‘U’ Battery in South Africa during the Boer War from 10 May to 1 October 1902, and then in India, and was drowned at Rawalpindi on 13 May 1907, after 7 years and 72 days’ service, being commemorated on the Memorial there.
With copied service papers and medal roll extracts, which state that the recipient also service in South Africa attached to ‘J’ Battery.
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