Victoria Cross for London Auction - April 5
Published March 21st, 2006
UK Auction News
A VC won by Sgt John Shaul, then 26, of the Highland Light Infantry, a medical orderly at the Battle of Magersfontein in the Boer War, is expected to fetch up to £120,000 at auction in London next month. Four Highland regiments lost nearly 1,000 men in the 1899 battle.
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