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Gold Boer War Tribute Medal, awarded to Farrier Sgt William James Seaborne, 5th Victoria Mounted Rifles by the Loyal Stowell Lodge, Loyal Manchested United Independent Order of Oddfellows, 1902. Associated with Boer War (1899-1902). The Manchester Unity of the Independent Order of Oddfellows is a friendly society that provided sickness pay and funerals to members. It still exists but much of its function was replaced by the welfare state.

Boer War (1899-1902)