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Three: Colour Sergeant W. T. Sillence, Hampshire Regiment India General Service 1854-95,...
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Three: Colour Sergeant W. T. Sillence, Hampshire Regiment India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (1250. Corp: W. T. Sillence. 2/Hamps: R.) engraved in upright serif capitals; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (1250 Cr:- Sjt: W. T. Sillence. Vol: Coy. Hants: Regt.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1250 Clr:- Serjt: W. T. Sillence. Hamps: Regt.) light contact marks, good very fine and better (3) £300-£400 --- William Thomas Sillence was born on 22 July 1862 and attested for the Hampshire Regiment on 24 November 1883. He was promoted Corporal on 18 June 1885; Sergeant on 17 January 1889; and Colour Sergeant on 23 April 1894, and served with the 2nd Battalion overseas in India and Burma, and with the Volunteer Company in South Africa during the Boer War from 8 March to 31 July 1902 (entitled to the clasps Transvaal and South Africa 1902 to his Queen’s South Africa Medal - such clasps were issued loose to the Volunteer Company). He was discharged on 23 November 1904, after 21 years’ service, and died in Portsmouth on 20 January 1944; his occupation on his death certificate stating ‘Pensioned Colour Sergeant, Hampshire Regiment, and Pensioned Civilian Clerk, Royal Army Ordnance Corps’.
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Three: Colour Sergeant W. T. Sillence, Hampshire Regiment India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (1250. Corp: W. T. Sillence. 2/Hamps: R.) engraved in upright serif capitals; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (1250 Cr:- Sjt: W. T. Sillence. Vol: Coy. Hants: Regt.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1250 Clr:- Serjt: W. T. Sillence. Hamps: Regt.) light contact marks, good very fine and better (3) £300-£400 --- William Thomas Sillence was born on 22 July 1862 and attested for the Hampshire Regiment on 24 November 1883. He was promoted Corporal on 18 June 1885; Sergeant on 17 January 1889; and Colour Sergeant on 23 April 1894, and served with the 2nd Battalion overseas in India and Burma, and with the Volunteer Company in South Africa during the Boer War from 8 March to 31 July 1902 (entitled to the clasps Transvaal and South Africa 1902 to his Queen’s South Africa Medal - such clasps were issued loose to the Volunteer Company). He was discharged on 23 November 1904, after 21 years’ service, and died in Portsmouth on 20 January 1944; his occupation on his death certificate stating ‘Pensioned Colour Sergeant, Hampshire Regiment, and Pensioned Civilian Clerk, Royal Army Ordnance Corps’.
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