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Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Joha...
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Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (57513 Sgt. Clerk A. Gobbitt, R.H.A.) good very fine £140-£180 --- Alfred Gobbitt was born at Woodbridge, Suffolk, and enlisted for the Royal Artillery at Colchester on 25 October 1886, aged 19 years 3 months, a clerk by trade. Posted to the Royal Horse Artillery, he was appointed Corporal in December 1892 and transferred to District Staff R.A. as a Lieutenant-Colonel’s Clerk in December 1894, becoming Sergeant in the same appointment in April 1896. He was promoted to Master Gunner 3rd Class in January 1900 and posted to the Southern District, but then transferred as a Sub-Conductor to the Army Ordnance Corps in December 1900. He served overseas in India from February 1889 to November 1892; in South Africa from December 1899 to August 1900; and at Bermuda from October 1902 to May 1905, during which service he was promoted to Conductor in July 1903. He was discharged on 2 July 1905, in consequence of a ‘tubercle of lung’. Sold with copied discharge papers which confirm medal and clasps and also entitlement to Good Conduct Medal (without Gratuity) announced in Army Order 68 of 1905.
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Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (57513 Sgt. Clerk A. Gobbitt, R.H.A.) good very fine £140-£180 --- Alfred Gobbitt was born at Woodbridge, Suffolk, and enlisted for the Royal Artillery at Colchester on 25 October 1886, aged 19 years 3 months, a clerk by trade. Posted to the Royal Horse Artillery, he was appointed Corporal in December 1892 and transferred to District Staff R.A. as a Lieutenant-Colonel’s Clerk in December 1894, becoming Sergeant in the same appointment in April 1896. He was promoted to Master Gunner 3rd Class in January 1900 and posted to the Southern District, but then transferred as a Sub-Conductor to the Army Ordnance Corps in December 1900. He served overseas in India from February 1889 to November 1892; in South Africa from December 1899 to August 1900; and at Bermuda from October 1902 to May 1905, during which service he was promoted to Conductor in July 1903. He was discharged on 2 July 1905, in consequence of a ‘tubercle of lung’. Sold with copied discharge papers which confirm medal and clasps and also entitlement to Good Conduct Medal (without Gratuity) announced in Army Order 68 of 1905.
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