Lot 4501

Description

1 RSU, Radar Surveillance Unit, enamel badge; other badges including Y.M.C.A. in Demobilisation, Liberation 1945-1995 Australia Remembers (Star of David behind barbed wire), Gardiner Central School (sew on type), Scots College white metal collar badge, Royal Volunteer Coastal Patrol keyring, Greek Day 1941 (crossed U.S. & British flags), QVA inside wreath (Queensland Veterans' Association); Prussia - Hohenzollern Campaign Medal 1848-49, no suspension ring or ribbon; hat badges, Artists Rifles, Army Cyclist Corps (restrike); Foudroyant Medal struck from copper of Lord Nelson's flagship (medal damaged); small medical cloth badge; oval medalette (19mm x 13mm) in white metal with suspension loop featuring the word 'Cetewayo' above bust of Zulu warrior and on the reverse 'The / Zulu / War / Medal'. Poor - extremely fine. (14)

Cetshwayo (note the different spelling) was King of the Zulus and led the fight against the British during the Zulu War of 1879. Ex Tom Hanley Collection.