Original British Boer War Medal Group - No 5 General Hospital - St. John’s Ambulance Brigade - Engraved Rim - Named Napoleonic The operator of the detector

The operator of the detector was also given a pair of headphones

The mechanism proved to be delicate and fouled easily with mud and debris

and in really good shape

Only the steel tang nut has plating loss and oxidation

Original British Boer War Medal Group - No 5 General Hospital - St. John’s Ambulance Brigade - Engraved Rim - Named Napoleonic The operator of the detectorOriginal Set: One Of A Kind: The two medals were awarded to Orderly A. Boam of the St. Johns Ambulance Brigade for service in South Africa during the Boer War (1899 1902). The first medal is The Queen's South Africa Medal with a Cape Colony clasp. The medal is a British campaign medal awarded to British and Colonial military personnel, and to civilians employed in an official capacity, who served in the Second Boer War in South Africa. Altogether