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LOCAL INTEREST - A Boer War Casualty Queen's South Africa medal with 5 clasps to 454 Private James Fox, 1st Scots Guards. Diamond Hill, Johannesburg, Driefontein, Modder River, Belmont [454 PTE. J. FOX, SCOTS GDS]. Sold together with several pages of copied research. Footnote:Private James Fox was born in 1876, the son of Peter and Abigail Fox. In the 1881 Census, aged 5, he is listed living at Sharpstones in Bayston Hill. His father was Peter Fox (born in Pontesbury), a farmer of 10 acres and a Stone Quarry proprietor. He enlisted into the Scots Guards, aged 18 years and 6 months, on 2nd July 1894, giving his trade as a butcher. He was described as fair complexion, blue eyes and dark hair, height 5' 9 7/8". Fox had previously served in the 3rd (Militia) King's Shropshire Light Infantry. He served for a total of 6 years and 9 days, dying of Enteric Fever at Pretoria, South Africa, on 10th July 1900. He is remembered at Holy Trinity Church (north and south gallery panels), Windsor, Berkshire.
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