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Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, date clasp loose, as issued (10800 Pte C. Walker, 40th Coy 10th Impl: Yeo:) mounted on a silvered bullet fixed to a mounted pin, contact marks, very fine £80-£100 --- C. Walker attested into the 40th (Oxfordshire) Company, Imperial Yeomanry for service in South Africa during the Second Boer War. He was wounded at Buffelshoek on 6 December 1900.

Pair: Private F. B. Manby, Suffolk Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (4229 Pte F. G. Maneby, 1st Suffolk Regt); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4229 Pte F. Manby [sic] Suffolk Regt) very fine (2) £80-£100 --- Frederick George Manby was born in Sudbury, Suffolk. He attested for the Suffolk Regiment at Ipswich in May 1895. Manby served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa from November 1899 until October 1902. He was discharged on 29 May 1907, having served 12 years with the Colours. Manby re-engaged for service with the Army Service Corps in November 1915, and advanced to Sergeant (entitled to BWM and VM). Sold with copied service papers.

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Mr. H. J. B. Payne, B.R.C. Society) officially impressed naming, toned, extremely fine and rare £200-£300 --- Sold with contemporary arm or hat white silk Red Cross band, and copied medal roll of the ‘British Red Cross Society’, which contains 16 names under Colonel J. S. Young and Sir John Furley. Henry J. B. Payne’s medal is unique with these three clasps.

Three: Major H. E. Tombe, Remount Depot, late Suffolk Regiment Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (Lieut: H. E. Tombe. 2/Suff: R.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Major H. E. Tombe. Remount Depot.) top lugs neatly removed; Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, unnamed as issued, light contact marks, generally nearly very fine or better (3) £280-£340 --- H. E. Tombe served as Commanding Officer of the Remount Depot at Cape Colony during the Second Boer War.

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1877-8 (Lieut: A. Schmidt. German Burgr Contingent) good very fine and scarce £800-£1,000 --- 73 medals to unit, all with 1877-8 clasp, 16 of which were returned unissued. August Schmidt was born in Zerrenthin, Prussia, on 23 August 1854 and served as a Lieutenant in the German Burgher Contingent (cavalry) during the Gaika and Galekas campaign of 1877-8. He died on East London, Eastern Cape on 31 January 1934 and was noted as a Farmer on his death certificate. Whether he had any military service prior to serving in the German Burgher Contingent is unknown but as an Officer it is certainly possible. Schmidt was one of three Officers of this unit.

Pair: Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant D. T. Kirkpatrick, Army Pay Corps Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial retaining rod between state and date clasps (769 Corpl: D. T. Kirkpatrick. A.P.D.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (769 S.Q.M. Sjt. D. T. Kirkpatrick. A.P.C.) good very fine King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3239 Serjt: J. Garbutt. Scot: Rifles.) very fine (3) £180-£220

A Second War 1941 ‘Battle of Cape Bon’ D.S.M. group of ten awarded to Petty Officer E. P. Moseling, Royal Navy, later Admiralty Constabulary, who was captured and taken Prisoner of War off Tobruk in September 1942 Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (J.101594 E. P. Moseling. P.O.); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1936-1939 (J.101594 E. P. Moseling. P.O. R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, 1 clasp, France and Germany; Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Burma Star, 1 clasp, Pacific; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (101594 E. P. Moseling. P.O. H.M.S. Sussex.); Police L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (Const. Ernest P. Moseling) good very fine (10) £2,400-£2,800 --- D.S.M. London Gazette 26 May 1942: ‘For coolness, skill and enterprise while serving in H.M. Ships Maori, Sikh, and Legion, in a brilliant night action in the Central Mediterranean in which, without hurt or loss to the Royal Navy, two Italian Cruisers and an E-boat were destroyed, and a Torpedo Boat badly damaged.’ The original Recommendation, dated 13 December 1941, states: ‘Director Layer. For coolness, efficiency, and accuracy on this and other occasions. He has set an example of cheerfulness and devotion to duty at all times.’ Ernest Percy Moseling was born in Dover on 21 August 1905, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 1 March 1921. Advanced to Petty Officer, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 25 July 1938, and served during the Second World War initially in H.M.S. Sussex, before transferring to H.M.S. Sikh on 2 June 1940. Moseling was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for his gallantry during the Battle of Cape Bon on the night of 12-13 December 1941, when the Italian cruisers Alberico da Barbarino and Alberto di Guissano, being used as petrol carriers to Bengazi, were spotted by British air reconnaissance and turned back after passing Cape Bon, off the Libyan coast. On their return they were intercepted and sunk by H.M.S. Sikh, H.M.S. Legion, and H.M.S. Maori. In September 1942 H.M.S. Sikh was tasked with supporting the assault landings at Tobruk (Operation Agreement). During the attempts to land the Royal Marines Sikh came under fire from the shore batteries, and sustained major damage. Taken in tow, she sank off the North African coast on 14 September. Taken Prisoner of War, Moseling was held by the Italians, before being repatriated on 31 March 1943, in a 3 way prisoner exchange (Hansard refers). Subsequently posted to H.M.S. Pembroke on 1 April 1943, he was promoted Chief Petty Officer on 27 May 1943, and saw further active service in H.M.S. Troubridge from 10 December 1944 to 12 August 1945. He was shore pensioned on 30 January 1946. Post-War, Moseling served with the Admiralty Constabulary as a Naval Base Fireman. He died in Rochester, Kent, on 2 December 1984. Sold with the recipient’s uniform ribbons and a large quantity of copied research, including a photographic images of the recipient, one whilst a Prisoner of War.

Four: Sergeant C. W. Lusher, 9th (Service) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front, 8 August 1916 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (5658 Pte W. [sic] Lusher. Suffolk Regt); 1914 Star (5658 L. Cpl. C. W. Lusher. 2/Suff: R.); British War and Victory Medals (5658 Sjt. C. W. Lusher. Suff. R.) generally good very fine (4) £200-£240 --- Charles William Lusher was the son of Charles Lusher of Stowmarket, Suffolk. He served with the 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment during the Second Boer War. Lusher subsequently served during the Great War with the 2nd Battalion on the Western Front from 10 October 1914. He advanced to Sergeant, and transferred to the 9th (Service) Battalion. Sergeant Lusher was killed in action on the Western Front on 8 August 1916, and is buried in Auchonvillers Military Cemetery, Somme, France.

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (S: Serjt: Farr A. Hirtes. I.S.V.D.) very fine and very rare £200-£300 --- A. Hirtes is confirmed as a Staff Sergeant-Farrier on the roll of the Indian Subordinate Veterinary Department which lists nine names - although one recipient seems to have been issued with his medal off the 4th Hussars roll; two are underlined; and the roll states ‘Issued 6 medals 13 clasps’. Hirtes also appears on an individual roll for the Subordinate Veterinary Department as being entitled to the King's South Africa medal with two clasps, and notes service with ‘No. 7 Station, Veterinary Hospital, Kroonstad.’ Sold with copied medal rolls.

Renamed and Defective Medals (6): Military Medal, G.V.R. (G9909 Sgt. A. Webb. Royal West Kent.) renamed; Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (2180. Pte. A. Downs 2/7th Fusrs.) number and name renamed; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (609 Pte M. Parker. 3rd Y & L) renamed; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4837 Pte. Pte. C. Robertson. 1st K.O.S.B.) renamed; Tibet 1903-04, no clasp, naming erased; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R., naming mostly erased; generally nearly very fine (6) £200-£240

The mounted group of twelve miniature dress medals worn by Lieutenant-Colonel E. A. Parker, O.B.E., M.C., D.C.M., Royal Welsh Fusiliers The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military Division) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt; Military Cross, G.V.R.; Distinguished Conduct Medal, E.VII.R.; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Hazara 1891; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Orange Free State; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902; 1914 Star, with clasp; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves; Coronation 1911; France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre 1914-1918, with bronze palm; Order of Merite Agricole, breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, mounted as worn, minor enamel damage to the last, very fine and better (12) £360-£440 --- Provenance: Llewellyn Lord Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2016. O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1919. M.C. London Gazette 18 February 1915. D.C.M. London Gazette 27 September 1901. Edward Augustus Parker was born in Peckham, London about 1867 and enlisted in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers in December 1886. Having then served with the 1st Battalion in the Hazara Expedition of 1891 (Medal & clasp), he was appointed Sergeant-Major in October 1898 and participated in the operations in the Transvaal, west of Pretoria, including the action at Frederickstad on 20 October 1900. He was wounded on the latter occasion, mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 10 September 1901, refers) and awarded the D.C.M. Subsequently commissioned as a Quarter-Master, with the honorary rank of Lieutenant, in the 1st Battalion in April 1904, he was a member of the regiment’s Coronation Contingent in 1911. Advanced to Q.M. & Captain in April 1914, Parker joined the 1st Battalion in Flanders in early October and was consequently witness to the severe fighting that followed. Following an abortive attack on Menin on the 17th, the Battalion - numbering 1150 officers and men - took up positions on the Broodseinde Ridge: within three days, as a consequence of severe enemy shelling and numerous infantry assaults, the unit’s strength was reduced to 200 officers and men. On the 29th, the Battalion was reinforced by 200 men and moved to new positions just east of the village of Zandvoorde. The Germans attacked in force on the following day, supported by 260 heavy artillery guns, and managed to get behind the Battalion’s line: it was all but annihilated, just 90 men answering the roll call on the 31st, among them Parker, the only surviving officer. He was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 17 February 1915, refers) and awarded the M.C., both distinctions undoubtedly reflecting his ‘gallantry in the Field’, as cited in a reference written by Major-General H. E. Holman at a later date. He was invested with his M.C. by King George V at Windsor Castle in April 1915, one of the first officers to be so honoured. Parker was subsequently appointed to the Staff, initially serving as A.D.C. to the G.O.C. 7th Division (November 1914-May 1915), and afterwards as a Camp Commandant In IV Corps H.Q. (May 1915-February 1916), and Camp Commandant 4th Army (February 1916-March 1918). Then following a brief spell as Camp Commandant, Supreme War Council, he returned to his post in 4th Army and remained similarly employed until the war’s end. He was awarded the O.B.E. and five times mentioned in despatches (London Gazettes 15 June 1916, 4 June 1917, 7 April 1918, 20 December 1918 and 5 July 1919, refer); in addition he was appointed a Chevalier of the French Order of Merite Agricole (London Gazette 7 October 1919, refers), and awarded the Croix de Guerre (London Gazette 24 October 1919, refers). Parker, who had been advanced to Q.M. & Major on the recommendation of Lieutenant-General H. Rawlinson, G.O.C. IV Corps, in May 1915, was appointed Q.M. & Lieutenant-Colonel in November 1923, shortly before his retirement. He died in December 1939. Sold with a quantity of original documentation, including the recipient’s pre-attestation recruit’s form; warrants appointing him to the rank of Sergeant-Major and Quarter-Master (1898 and 1914); his M.I.D. certificates for French’s despatch, dated 14 January 1915, and Haig’s despatches, dated 30 April 1916, 8 November 1918 and 16 March 1919; and an old copy of General Rawlinson’s letter recommending him for advancement to Q.M. and Major, dated 5 May 1915.

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901 (Civ: Dental Surg: A. Berlyn.) officially impressed naming, very fine and rare £200-£300 --- “Mr A. Berlyn, L.D.S., is appointed Dental Surgeon to the troops at the Base, with effect from 7 Feb 1901, at the rate of £1 per diem and rations.” (Lines of Communications, Cape Town, 12 February 1901, refers). Abraham Berlyn is featured in the 1913 edition of Who’s Who in South Africa with a photograph and short biography as follows: ‘BERLYN, Abraham, L.D.S., F.P.S., Bronze Medal in Dental Surgery; served in late Boer War, attached R.A.M.C., Queen’s Medal, 3 clasps (sic); first Dental Surgeon gazetted in Army Orders; Dental Surgeon; b. 7th Oct., 1869, at Birmingham; 2nd s. of Moses Berlyn. Educ. Queen’s College of Medicine and Mason Coll. of Science, Birmingham; m. 1907 Susannah A. Willdaneh, Newlands, Cape Town; 1 dau. Practised in Birmingham, England 1891-6. Author of original treatise on the care and treatment of children’s teeth. Came to South Africa in 1896. Hobby: Microscopical work. Add. 29, Downing Street, King William’s Town.’ Sold with copied research including medal roll confirming both clasps.

A Great War 1917 ‘French theatre’ M.M. group of three awarded to Private C. R. Peacock, 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment Military Medal, G.V.R. (3-5020 Pte. C. R. Peacock. 2/Suff: R.) contact marks; British War and Victory Medals (5020 Pte. C. Peacock. Suff. R.) therefore generally nearly very fine or better (3) £260-£300 --- M.M. London Gazette 18 July 1917. Charles Peacock served with the 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment during the Second Boer War (entitled to Q.S.A. with ‘Cape Colony’, ‘Orange Free State’, ‘Transvaal’ and ‘South Africa 1901’ clasps). He served during the Great War with the 2nd Battalion on the Western Front from 15 September 1914 (entitled to 1914 Star).

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (2336 Pte G. Cook, 1st Suffolk Regt) very fine £100-£140 --- George Cook was born in Netley, Hampshire. He attested for the Suffolk Regiment in September 1888, and served with the Regiment in South Africa from November 1899 until August 1901. Cook’s service papers give him as slightly wounded at Rensberg on 6 January 1900 - however, he is not listed in the latest published transcription of the casualty roll. He was discharged on 9 September 1901, having served 13 years with the Colours. Sold with copied service papers.

Pair: Private J. S. Sawford, Imperial Yeomanry Hospital Staff and London Fire Brigade Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (Pte. J. S. Sawford. I.Y. Hp. Staff.) officially impressed naming; National Fire Brigades’ Union (Ambulance Department) Medal for South Africa 1899-1902, silver (James S. Sawford, Fire Brigde, Earl’s Court, London S.W.) naming engraved in reverse field, contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine and rare (2) £1,000-£1,400 --- Ref: Hibbard J5. It is believed that approximately 42 National Fire Brigades’ Union Medals were awarded - issued to volunteers from the organisation who went to South Africa attached to the Medical Corps - working in hospitals, dressing stations etc. At the end of their service, the volunteers returned home and were presented with their medals by H.M. Queen Alexandra, Patroness of the N.F.B.U., at Earls Court in 1902. Refer Boer War Tribute Medals by Hibbard who lists all 42 recipients with some brief details. As of 2012 just eight N.F.B.U. Medals for South Africa have been recorded. See Dix Noonan Webb auction of 23 September 2011 for a similar pair. Sold with copied medal roll for Imperial Yeomanry Hospital Staff and detailed research on the N.F.B.U. medal for South Africa with full roll of awards.

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Civ: Ord: N. T. King, Welsh Hospital) officially impressed naming, small edge bruise, otherwise nearly extremely fine and rare £300-£400 --- Civilian Orderly N. T. King is confirmed on the roll of the Welsh Hospital, which lists 44 names. The Welsh Hospital hospital was one of a number of private hospitals that was accepted and used by the British Government during the Boer War, and was established in March 1900. A sum of £12,000 was quickly raised to fund the initiative, and the Welsh Hospital set sail for Cape Town the following month, comprising five Surgeons, one Matron, nine Nursing Sisters, seven Dressers, fourteen Civilian Orderlies, two Sister’s Maids, one Chef (a Frenchman, Monsieur Amiel), two Cooks, and a Quartermaster. It was slightly larger in size than the similarly formed Scottish and Irish Hospitals. Housed in tents on the open veldt in Bloemfontein, the Hospital was handed over to the Army on 30 September 1900, described at the time as being ‘the model and the smartest military hospital in South Africa.’
 Sold with copied medal roll and article published in the O.M.R.S. Journal.

A scarce Defence of Ookiep pair awarded to Private R. Harvey, Namaqualand Town Guard Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (248 Pte. R. Harvey. Namqlnd: T.G.); Cape Copper Company Medal for the Defence of Ookiep, bronze issue (R. Harvey) initial corrected on last, otherwise good very fine (2) £2,800-£3,400

An extremely early Second War D.S.C. group of nine awarded to Skipper Lieutenant H. C. Gue, Royal Naval Reserve Distinguished Service Cross, G.VI.R., the reverse officially dated ‘1939’ and privately engraved, ‘Chief Skipper H. C. Gue, D.S.C.’, hallmarked London 1939; British War Medal 1914-20 (15376 D.A. H. C. Gue. L.D.H., R.N.R.); Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (Henry C. Gue); Victory Medal 1914-19 (15376 D.A. H. C. Gue. L.D.H., R.N.R.); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1936-1939 (Ch. Skpr. H. C. Gue. D.S.C., R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; War Medal 1939-45; Royal Naval Reserve Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, the reverse officially dated ‘1939’, mounted court-style, generally good very fine (9) £2,000-£2,400 --- D.S.C. London Gazette 1 January 1940: ‘For unfailing courage, endurance and resource in H.M. Trawlers, Drifters and Minesweepers in their hard and perilous task of sweeping the seas clear of enemy mines and combating submarines.’ Henry Charles Gue was in London on 1 May 1894, and entered the Royal Naval Reserve as a Deck Hand on 27 March 1917. Demobilised in the rate of Leading Deck Hand in March 1919, he was appointed a Skipper in October 1924 and advanced to Chief Skipper in October 1934, and it was in the latter rank that he volunteered for service in the Red Sea, in support of anti-smuggling operations off Palestine in the late 1930s, most probably in a trawler converted for inshore patrol work. Appointed to the requisitioned trawler Cape Spartel in November 1939, he went on to win his D.S.C. in a matter of weeks, thereby becoming just the 26th recipient of the decoration to be listed in the London Gazette for the 1939-45 War, ahead even of the River Plate awards. Chief Skipper Gue received his award at an investiture held on 5 March 1940. Gue removed to another trawler, the Pitsman, in April 1941, and to the Athenian as C.O. and Skipper Lieutenant, in March 1944, in which latter vessel he served in support of the Normandy landings prior to being placed on the Retired List at the end of the year. His R.N.R. Decoration was announced in the London Gazette in February 1945. Sold with copied record of service and other research.

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (21476 Corpl: G. Mayes. Marshall’s Horse) good very fine £70-£90 --- George Mayes attested into Marshall’s Horse for service during the Second Boer War. He was severely wounded at Henning Valley on 24 March 1901.

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901 (Capt. P. W. Brooks. S. Staff. Rgt.) officially engraved naming, toned, nearly extremely fine £240-£280

Three: Company Quarter Master Sergeant C. Upson, 1/4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, late 1st Volunteer Battalion, Suffolk Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (6476 Pte. C. Upson, Vol: Coy Suffolk Regt); British War Medal 1914-20 (330 C. Sjt. C. Upson. Suff. R.); Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, E.VII.R. (1930 Sjt: C. Upson. 1/V.B. Suffolk Regt) first and last cleaned, good very fine --- Provenance: Baldwins 1971 (Q.S.A. and V.F.L.S.M. only). Charles Upson was born in Woodbridge, Suffolk. He attested for the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Suffolk Regiment at Woodbridge in February 1890. He advanced to Corporal in June 1901, served with the Regiment in South Africa from February 1900 until April 1901, and advanced to Sergeant in April 1907. Upson transferred to the 4th Battalion in April 1908, and advanced to Colour Sergeant in July 1912. Upson served during the Great War with the 1/4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment in the French theatre of War from 8 November 1914 until 7 April 1916 (entitled to Silver War Badge). Upson was discharged on 12 April 1916, and died in Ipswich in June 1926. Sold with copied service papers and research.

Pair: Corporal D. McKenzie, Seaforth Highlanders, who was wounded at Magersfontein on 11 December 1899 India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (2675 Lce. Corpl. D. Mc.Kenzie 2d. Bn. Seaforth Highlrs.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (2675 Corl. D. Mc’Kenzie, 2: Sea: Highrs:) contact marks and edge bruising, nearly very fine (2) £300-£400 --- Donald McKenzie served with the 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders, in South Africa during the Boer War, and was wounded at the battle of Magersfontein on 11 December 1899, on which date the Battalion suffered 5 officers and 53 other ranks killed or mortally wounded; and 7 officers and 135 other ranks wounded. Sold with copied medal roll extracts and other research.

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Wittebergen (Donald Cormack. Scripture Reader.) officially impressed naming, several small edge bruises, otherwise better than very fine and very rare £400-£500 --- Donald Cormack is confirmed on the roll of Army Scripture Readers which contains 8 names only. His name is shown on a further roll ‘Attached [2] Battn. Seaforth Highlanders’ which confirms both clasps and notes: ‘Army Scripture Reader Donald Cormack, Scottish Branch Army Scripture Readers Society, 5 St. Andrew Square, Edinburgh. Served with Highland Brigade, Bloomfontein, Winburg, Heelbron, Frankfort, Reitz, Bethlehem, Harrismith, taking part in the operations resulting in the capture of General Prinsloo, in the Caledon Valley, and other minor engagements during a period of 5 months in Orange Free State. Embarked at Queenstown S.S. Cumbria 16th March 1900. Re-embarked Cape Town S.S. Britannic 6th Oct 1900.’ Sold with copies of both medal rolls, together with a ‘Soldier’s New Testament - South Africa 1900’.

Pair: Orderly J. H. Hargreaves, St. John Ambulance Brigade Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (797 Ordly: J. H. Hargreaves, St. John Amb: Bde:); St. John Medal for South Africa 1899-1902 (... Pte. J. H. Hargreaves Foulridge Div:) edge bruising and contact marks, worn in parts, therefore fair (2) £400-£500 --- J. H. Hargreaves served as an Orderly at No. 8 General Hospital. Sold with copied medal roll extract.

Three: Quarter Master Sergeant, later Lieutenant and Quarter Master, G. Hammond, Suffolk Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (1383 C. Sgt. G. Hammond, 1st Suffolk Regt); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (1383 Qr:-Mr:-Serjt: G. Hammond. Suffolk Regt); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (1383 Q.M. Sgt. G. Hammond. Suffolk Regt) very worn, fine (3) £100-£140 --- George Edward Hammond was born in Birmingham, and attested for the Suffolk Regiment at Bury St. Edmunds in June 1885. He served with the Regiment in South Africa, October 1899 - November 1904. Hammond advanced to Quarter Master Sergeant, and was discharged in September 1908. He re-engaged for service during the Great War and served with the regiment in the French theatre of war from 30 August 1915 (entitled to 1914/15 Star trio). Hammond was commissioned Lieutenant and Quarter Master in April 1916. He died in Bury St. Edmunds in March 1939. Sold with copied service papers.

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (4868 Pte. J. Rathborne. 1st Rl: Irish Regt) scratch to obverse, otherwise good very fine £70-£90 --- M.I.D. London Gazette, 10 July 1901. The recipient was additionally entitled to the clasps, Cape Colony, Belfast and Wittebergen, and a King’s South Africa Medal with the usual two clasps.

Five: Sergeant J. Harper, Kimberley Volunteer Regiment Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-97, 1 clasp, Bechuanaland (Pte. J. Harper. Kimby. Rifs.); British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Rhodesia 1896 (Troopr. J. Harper. M.R.F.); Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Kimberley (52 Sjt: J. Harper. Kimberley Vol: Regt.); King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (52 Cpl. J. Harper. Kimb: Vol: Regt.); Mayor of Kimberley’s Star 1899-1900, reverse hallmark with date letter ‘a’, mounted for display, good very fine (5) £1,200-£1,600

Pair: Quarter Master Sergeant W. Tynan, Suffolk Regiment India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Hazara 1888 (2119 Pte W. Tynan 1st Bn Suff. R.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (2119 Q.M. Sgt W. Tynan, 1st Suffolk Regt) generally good very fine (2) £200-£240

Three: Drummer J. St. E. Duffy, 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, who was taken prisoner of war on the Western Front, 15 February 1915 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (4246 Drmr: J. St. E. Duffy, 1st Suffolk Regt); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4246 Dmr: J. [sic] Duffy. Suffolk Regt); British War Medal 1914-20 (7621 Pte J. St. E. Duffy. Suff. R.) edge bruising to the first two, therefore nearly very fine (3) £160-£200 --- John St. Edmund Duffy was born in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. He attested as a Boy for the Suffolk Regiment in Dublin in August 1895, and was appointed as a Drummer the following year. Duffy served with the 1st Battalion during the Second Boer War in South Africa from November 1899 to September 1902. He advanced to Corporal in June 1906, and frequently appeared in the Regimental Defaulters book through out his service. Duffy served during the Great War with the 1st Battalion in the French theatre of war from 16 January 1915, and was reported Missing on 15 February 1915. He was later confirmed as having been taken prisoner of war and interned in Munster, Germany. Duffy was repatriated in December 1918. Sold with copied service papers.

Pair: Private C. Sargent, Suffolk Regiment India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Hazara 1888 (.... C. Sargent 1st Bn. Suff. R.) suspension very slack; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (852 C. Sargent, 1st Suffolk Regt) last with rivet in lefthand lug, worn, fine (2) £80-£100 --- Additionally entitled to ‘South Africa 1901’ clasp.

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (2081 Pte W. Chappell, 1st Suffolk Regt) nearly very fine £70-£90

St Andrew’s Ambulance Association medal for the Scottish National Red Cross Hospital, South Africa 1900, silver and red enamel, named on the edge ‘James Miller’, fitted with small rings for suspension and silver ribbon buckle, very fine £160-£200 --- James Miller is confirmed as a Medical Student on the roll of the Scottish National Red Cross Hospital roll for the Q.S.A. with 2 clasps for Cape Colony and Orange Free State. Sold with copied Q.S.A. roll and an unsourced note which states: ‘War in South Africa - Appointed Burgesses City of Glasgow. On 21 Feb 1901, James Miller of 93 Golfhill Terrace, Denniston, Glasgow, served with Scottish National Red Cross Hospital.’

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (3952 Sgt H. Arrowsmith, 1st Suffolk Regt) good very fine £180-£220 --- H. Arrowsmith served with the 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment during the Second Boer War, and was killed in action at Colesberg on 6 January 1900.

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (A/Chap: R. B. Redding, A.C.D.) officially engraved naming, minor edge bruises, otherwise toned, good very fine £200-£300 --- Richard Benson Redding served as an Acting Chaplain with the Army Chaplains Department in South Africa (Medal with 5 Clasps). He was appointed Chaplain on the Madras Ecclesiastical Establishment in 1903 as Chaplain of Calicut and Cannanore. Sometime shortly after April 1904, he resigned from the Church and committed suicide whilst under temporary insanity. He was buried on 11 June 1904, aged 34. Sold with copied medal roll and other details.

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (4709 Pte G. J. Allensby, 1st Suffolk Regt) good very fine £80-£120 --- G. Allensby served with the 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment during the Second Boer War, and died of disease at Wynberg on 26 February 1901.

Three: Major A. G. Joiner, Royal Lancaster Regiment, late Northamptonshire Regiment and East Surrey Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, unofficial rivets between second and third clasps (4005 Serjt: A. G. Joiner., 2/E. Surrey Rgt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lt. A. G. Joiner Nthptn. Rgt.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt. A. G. Joiner.); together with a related group of five miniature awards additionally including a 1914 Star with clasp and a Victory Medal, edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine and better (3) £240-£280 --- Arthur George Joiner attested for the East Surrey Regiment and served with the 2nd Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War, being commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Northamptonshire Regiment in July 1900. He took part in the Relief of Ladysmith, including the action at Colenso; the operations of 17 to 24 January 1900, and the action at Spion Kop; the operations of 5 to 7 February 1900, and the action at Vaal Kranz; the operations on the Tugela Heights, and the action at Pieters Hill; and operations in the Transvaal. He was employed as a Railway Staff Officer from 4 October to 19 November 1901, and for his services was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 8 February 1901). Joiner saw further service with the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 22 August 1914, and was advanced Major. Sold with an empty Princess Mary 1914 Christmas Tin.

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Pte. W. Milton, Langman Hospital) officially impressed naming, good very fine and rare £300-£400 --- Private W. Milton is confirmed on the roll of the Langman Hospital, which lists 58 names but this figure includes 12 nursing sisters who received the medal under the auspices of the R.A.M.C. Established by Mr. John Langman, this private hospital opened its tented wards for the first time in April 1900, on the cricket ground at Bloemfontein, where, a few days later, it was inspected by Lord Roberts, V.C., who said of it in a telegram to Langman back in London, that its ‘value to our R.A.M.C. and wounded cannot be overestimated’. Indeed, under the efficient command of Langman’s son, Archibald, actually a Lieutenant in the Middlesex Yeomanry, the hospital eventually treated 1211 cases, latterly at a new location in Pretoria. Of these patients, 278 returned to duty, 875 were transferred to other hospitals and 58 died.
Among the handful of Surgeons employed on the 45-strong staff, 18 of whom were from the St. John Ambulance Brigade, was Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle, M.D., he of Sherlock Holmes fame, who had, from the outset, been invited by John Langman to assist in the selection of suitable personnel - it is not without interest therefore that Corporal Weston Burt was, like Conan Doyle, a resident of Southsea, a fact that suggests they may well have been local friends. Be that as it may, both men would certainly have shared in the horrific scenes caused by ever-growing numbers of enteric victims, the famous author being compelled to write:
‘Our hospital was no worse off than the others, and as there were many of them the general condition of the town [Bloemfontein] was very bad. Coffins were out of the question, and the men were lowered in their brown blankets into shallow graves at the average of sixty a day. A sickening smell came from the stricken town. Once when I had ridden out to get an hour or two of change, and was at least six miles from the town, the wind changed and the smell was all around me. You could smell Bloemfontein long before you could see it. Even now if I felt that lowly death smell compounded of disease and disinfectants my heart would sink within me.’
The Hospital was eventually given as a free gift by John Langman to the Government in November 1900, complete with all its equipment, tentage and supplies - he was created a Baronet in 1906, while his son, Archibald, received prompter reward by way of a C.M.G. in 1902. Conan Doyle, too, was among the ex-Langman staff honoured, receiving a knighthood, although he later claimed this was in response to the publication of his pamphlet, The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct. Sold with copied medal roll and article on the Langman Hospital by W. H. Fevyer, published in the O.M.R.S. Journal.

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (3010 Pte F. Seaman, 1st Suffolk Regt) good fine £50-£70 --- Frederick Seaman was born in Stanton, Suffolk. He attested for the Suffolk Regiment at Bury St. Edmunds in January 1891. Seaman served with the Regiment in the East Indies, March 1893 - December 1898, and in South Africa, November 1899 - August 1900. He was discharged, 26 January 1903, having served for 11 years and 64 days with the Colours. Sold with copied service papers.

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (2246 Pte G. Farraway, 1st Suffolk Regt) good very fine £70-£90 --- George Farraway was born in Enfield, London. He attested for the Suffolk Regiment at London in July 1888 discharged, and served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa from November 1899 until April 1900. Farrary was discharged in Cape Town on 9 July 1901, having served 13 years with the Colours. Sold with copied service papers.

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (Lieut: J. G. Gardner. 2nd. Cape Yeory.) good very fine £1,000-£1,400 --- J. G. Gardner served as a Lieutenant in the 2nd Cape Mounted Yeomanry. This unit saw a good deal of action at Morosi’s Mountain in 1879 and Basutoland in 1880, suffering many casualties.

Pair: Private J. Gilbey, Suffolk Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (1733 Pte J. Gilbey, Suffolk Regt) 2nd clasp facing slightly buckled; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (1733 Pte J. Gilbey. Suffolk Regt) edge bruising, otherwise very fine (2) £120-£160 --- J. Gilbey served with the 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment during the Second Boer War, and was wounded at Lake Chrissie, 6 February 1901.

Three: Colour Sergeant H. Britton, 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, who was taken prisoner of war at Colesberg, 6 January 1900 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (3361 Sgt H. Britton, 1st Suffolk Regt); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3361 Serjt: H. Britton. Suffolk Regt); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (3361 C. Sjt: H. Britton. Suffolk Regt) contact marks overall, therefore good fine or better (3) £280-£340 --- Harry James Britton was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, and attested for the Suffolk Regiment at Colchester in October 1892. He advanced to Corporal in December 1895, and to Sergeant in November 1899. Britton served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa from November 1899 to September 1902, and was taken prisoner of war at Colesberg on 6 January 1900. He rejoined his Battalion on 30 September later that same year, and advanced to Colour Sergeant in May 1904 (awarded L.S. & G.C. in 1911). Britton was discharged in October 1913, after 21 years service with the Colours. He re-enlisted in the 5th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment on 1 June 1915, only to be invalided out of service as medically unfit on 2 October 1916. Sold with copied service papers.

The mounted group of seven miniature dress medals worn by Colonel Sir Henry M. W. Gray, Royal Army Medical Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st type badge, gold and enamels; The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (Military) badge, gold and enamels; The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, badge, gold and enamels; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony; 1914 Star; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves, mounted as worn, the last with distressed ribbon, otherwise good very fine (7) £300-£400 --- K.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919. C.B. London Gazette 1 January 1916. C.M.G. London Gazette 3 June 1918. See Lot 264 for Colonel Gray’s full-sized awards.

Anglo-Boer War Medal 1899-1902 (Kapt. A. C. Neethling.) toned, nearly extremely fine £600-£800 --- Andries Christoffel Neethling was a recently qualified Doctor (M.B., Ch.B. 1899 University of Edinburgh) chosen to lead one of the two detachments of the Sivewright Ambulance. In The Lancet of 18 November 1899, there appeared the following notice: “Under the auspices of Sir James Sivewright K.C.M.G., who was recently entertained to dinner in Edinburgh by the South African Students' Union, an ambulance corps chiefly composed of Edinburgh medical students connected with the Transvaal has been formed. A portion left Edinburgh on Saturday night for South Africa (Nov. 1899). They will be joined in London by Dr. and Mrs. Gray, Aberdeen, and several nurses. It is said that Sir James Sivewright is to pay the expense of equipment and that a British steamship line will convey the students and material free of cost." ‘There were to be two detachments under the direction of Dr Gray, assistant-surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen. The one group, in charge of Dr Gray himself, included his wife, a British student named Alan Johnson, and three South Africans, L. Fourie, G. H. van Zyl and D. Luther. The other group was in charge of Dr A.C. Neethling, a South African who had recently qualified and was working as a house-surgeon at the Bradford Infirmary. With him were four medical students, A. J. du Toit, W. Walker Hauman, C. T. Möller and J. L.Schoemann, and a nurse, a Mrs. Bamford. They took leave of their fellow students with promises to return soon and complete their interrupted studies, and on 15 November the James Sivewright Ambulance sailed in the Moravian from the Royal Albert Dock, charged to report at Cape Town to the Senior Commanding Officer and from there to 'make their way to the Boer lines by whatever route he may direct'. The Moravian had hardly left England when a storm of abuse broke about Sivewright's head. It could not have been forgotten that until 1898 he was a member of Hofmeyer's Afrikaner Bond in the Cape Parliament. The sympathies of the Bondsmen were known to lie with their fellow Afrikaners in the Transvaal and, although Kruger regarded this support as ineffectual, it seemed little less than treasonable in the eyes of many of Her Majesty's subjects further away in Britain. Sivewright was accused in the press of being a traitor and sending aid to the 'enemies of his native country’. With a flourish of self righteous indignation he protested his neutrality and immediately offered Her Majesty's Government his 4 large properties in Hottentots Holland, to be used as convalescent homes for wounded British officers! On 16 December 1899 the Moravian docked in Cape Town and the Sivewright reported to the Commanding Officer, impatient to be gone on their journey northwards. A telegram was sent to President Kruger, offering their services to the sick and wounded. The reply was startling. President Kruger declined their offer, stating that he did not ‘receive such gifts from an enemy’! The Afrikaners in the party, no less determined to reach their destination but scenting trouble, kept in the background and urged Dr. Gray to approach Sir Alfred Milner himself and ask for safe conduct to the Boer lines. No details of this interview are available, but the outcome was disappointing. It may be guessed that Milner disapproved thoroughly of the entire scheme and found in Kruger's telegram confirmation of his own opinion of the Boers. In the end they abandoned their attempts to travel up through the Cape Colony and were given passages on board the Congella, bound for Delagoa Bay. On 26 December the Sivewright Ambulance, their optimism revived, disembarked at Lourenco Marques and presented themselves to Mr. Pott, the Transvaal Consul. Their arrival had evidently been anticipated - and not alone by Mr. Pott. According to Alan Johnson, one of the 3 British members of the corps, this gentleman ‘told them curtly that they were not wanted, declaring that there were no wounded to require their care’. Dr. Gray's consternation may be imagined, the more so as he began to suspect that the Consul's message was directed at the British element of the corps. Matters were not improved, either, by the discovery that Gray was carrying letters from friends to British officers in the Transvaal. Again he saw Mr. Pott, explained the purpose of their mission, and assured him of the goodwill that had launched this venture which now, at the last moment, appeared to be in danger of floundering. The reply was the same as before: The Transvaal did not desire any assistance from Sir James Sivewright and would reimburse him all expenses. Meanwhile the Afrikaner medical students had not been still. Some of them had already made contact with a Boer agent operating in Lourenco Marques and learned that they would be allowed across the border if they made their way to Resanna Garcia. When negotiations between Dr. Gray and Mr. Pott broke down, Dr. Neethling acted, promptly. The Afrikaners had no intention of turning back; if they could-get through on their own they would do so. Dr. Gray, however, regarding such action to be totally 'at variance with Sir James Sivewright's intentions’ refused to hand over the surgical equipment. A telegram was sent to Sir James without further delay. His reply was unequivocal: All the equipment was to be handed over to Dr. Neethling and he and the other Afrikaners should proceed to Pretoria. Whether, as Alan Johnson later contended, the object of the Transvaal Government was merely to get rid of the British members of the expedition, cannot be known for certain. Against this there is evidence that those who did reach the Transvaal - including the nurse, Mrs. Bamford - did so not through any official channel but on their own initiative. Nevertheless, a tirade broke when the news reached London. The Times' correspondent stated openly that the expedition had been used ‘as a cloak to smuggle into the Transvaal men with Boer sympathies who would otherwise have been stopped’. In ‘a leading West End club', rumour flared into open accusation: an armed group of Afrikaners had cheated their way into the Transvaal to join the Boer forces, and Sir James Sivewright had been their dupe! The latter denied the charge vehemently and offered £1,000 to the Lord Mayor's Fund if it could be proved. In any case, he pointed out, as Cape Colonials they were all British subjects and if caught with guns would be treated as rebels! Of Dr. and Mrs. Gray and Alan Johnson little more was heard. Sad and disillusioned they made their way back to Durban and offered their services to the Imperial Army. On 2 January 1900 Dr. Neethling and the rest of his group reached Pretoria. As individuals they were welcomed with open arms; as the Sivewright Ambulance they were still viewed with suspicion. By now, however, they had learnt enough about international diplomacy to sidestep any further entanglement with the Transvaal Government. They quietly dropped their title and joined Het Transvaalsche Roode Kruis as a single detachment under Dr. Neethling. By the end of January they were at the Natal front serving as a field ambulance to one of General Lukas Meyer's commandos.’ (Extracts taken from The James Sivewright Ambulance, S.A. Medical Journal, March 1966) When applying for his A.B.O. Medal in July 1921, Doctor Neethling submitted the following statement: ‘About June 1901, if I remember correctly, I was captured by the British Forces near Harnertsburg, Pietersburg District, Transvaal & was allowed out on parole in Pretoria for about three weeks. Thereafter I was made Asst. Medical Officer at Irene Concentration Camp, which offer I accepted upon the advice of Mr. J. de Villiers Roo...

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp, bronze issue (10935 Tonga Syce Shahda S & T. Corps) officially engraved naming, suspension a little bent and slack, polished, otherwise nearly very fine and rare £200-£300 --- 10935 Shahda is confirmed as a Tong Syce on the roll of ‘Messrs. C. Dhanji Bhai Company’s TONGA TRAIN’ as being entitled to the bronze medal (and clasps for Cape Colony and Orange Free State ‘if sanctioned’). A despatch in the London Gazette of 16 April 1901, reports: ‘My thanks are due to Khem Bahadur Dhanjibhoy, a Parsee gentleman, long resident in the Punjab, who presented tongas for ambulance purposes. These tongas were horsed and fully equipped with drivers and all necessary gear. They proved most useful.’ Sold with copied medal roll and gazette entry.

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Pte. F. Horner, Imp: Yeo: Field Hosp:) officially impressed naming, dark toned, good very fine and scarce £200-£300 --- F. Horner is confirmed on the roll of the Imperial Yeomanry Field Hospital, one of 62 medals issued to the Hospital, mostly with three clasps. He served as a Ward Orderly at Headquarters until 18 July 1900, when he remained with a detachment that was left at Pretoria. He left for England on 21 September 1900. Sold with copied medal roll.

A rare and well-documented ‘Easter Rising’ 1916 D.C.M. group of four awarded to Company Sergeant Major S. H. Lomas, 2nd/6th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment), for his gallantry in building and maintaining a barricade under intense sniper fire in the vicinity of Moore Street and Parnell Street, Dublin, during the height of the uprising, and whose diary for the period provides an important eyewitness account of Easter Week; subsequently proceeding to France, he was killed in action during the Battalion’s assault at Hargicourt on 27 April 1917 Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (3415 C.S. Mjr: S. H. Lomas. 2/6 N. & D.R. -T.F.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial fixings between state and date clasps (7495 Pte. S. H. Lomas. Vol: Coy. Derby: Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (141062 W.O. Cl.2 S. H. Lomas. Notts. & Derby. R.) light scratch to obverse field of DCM; edge bruise to QSA; otherwise good very fine and better (4) £5,000-£7,000 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 24 January 1917; citation published 3 March 1917: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He erected barricades under very heavy fire and set a splendid example throughout.’ The recipient’s own diary for the week of the Easter Rising gives further details: 24 April 1916: 8:30 p.m. Whilst at Watford we received order to prepare for a sudden move. By midnight all packed and ready to move. 25 April 1916: 5:00 a.m. Battalion paraded and marched to Watford Junction Station. Arrived at Liverpool Dockside Station at 2:10 p.m. and boarded the Royal Mail Steamer Ulster for Kingstown. 26 April 1916: 1:00 a.m. Battalion moved off in the direction of Dublin.... We arrived at the Royal Hospital, Dublin, at 7:50 p.m. After unloading our rifles we were allowed to take up our quarters for the night in the corridors, thoroughly tired out. 27 April 1916: Noon. Marched out from the Royal Hospital en route for Dublin Castle. All along the road, constant sniping was going on but the Royal Irish, by keeping up a constant fire in the direction of the snipers, prevented them from concentrating their fire on the column. We arrived at Dublin Castle without any casualties. 6:00 p.m. ‘D’ Coy were ordered to proceed along Cappel Street, Parnell Street to consolidate the position held by the Royal Irish. We moved out and on crossing the bridge over the river from Parliament Street, we came under heavy fire from the Sein Feinners. We proceeded up Cappel Street and on entering Parnell Street, at every cross street we were subjected to rifle fire from the enemy. On arrival at Moore Street, I was instructed to make a barricade right across the street. 7:30 p.m. Proceeded to make the barricade assisted by 12 men. To find material for this, the furniture of a butcher’s shop was used consisting of blocks, bedding, stands, wardrobes, spring mattresses etc. This barricade was completed by 11:00 p.m. and three sentries were posted. We were then instructed to make safe all the barricades of "D" Coy consisting of seven at the various streets, viz :-Street, Kings Inn Lane, Coles Lane, Denmark Chapel Lane and two streets the names of which I did not take. When this was completed we got over the barricades and fixed three lots of trip wires, to hold up the enemy in case of a rush. During the whole of the time incessant firing was being carried on by both sides. Whilst the barricade at the end of Moore Street was being erected, a picked squad of Royal Irish held positions on house roofs and in top storey windows, effectually preventing an attack. 28 April 1916: 2:00 a.m. The work being made as safe as possible, I found an armchair used for the barricading, and so slept peacefully. 5:30 a.m. Relief guards sent on duty, barricades further strengthened, additional men allotted and breakfast given out. 9:30 a.m. An 18-pounder was brought up. A fatigue party was then taken to remove the setts to provide a place for the shovel of the gun. This was at the corner of Coles Lane. Four shells were fired down the street into a large shop at the bottom in Henry Street, in which the Sein Feinners were making explosives, Messrs Curtiss & Sons, Brass Foundry and Munitions Factory. This must have upset their calculations somewhat, as the firing from that direction almost ceased. The plate glass windows in the locality were shattered by the explosion of the charge, and the shell cut through the factory like a knife. Noon. One 18-pounder arrived and laid facing down Moore Street in the direction of the G.P.O. Four shells were fired which caused the rebels to quake, as for some considerable time, the rifle fire was silent, with the exception of a few snipers. 6:00 p.m. Sniping became more incessant until dark. All extra men were mounted and posted. 29 April 1916: 9:00 a.m. Received instructions to prepare for storming parties of 20 men and an officer, and to provide ourselves with tools of any description to break down the doors etc. To search the houses through to Henry Street and to make a breach when necessary in the walls. 12:30 p.m. All ready and the assault commenced. My party were allotted to an alley with houses either side. My weapon was a bar 5’6” long 1” strength with a lever end – a beautiful tool for the purpose. I struck at one door such a smack and knocked the door complete for some 5 yards into the house, breaking hinges and lock at the same time. Sweating like the devil! (Rather with fear, excitement or work) It is surprising how the lust to destroy comes over you. 2:00 p.m. Orders are passed for us to stand by as a white flag was approaching the end of Moore Street. This was found to be from Sean O’Connelly [James Connolly] asking for terms of surrender. Instructions were sent back up the street for O’Connelly to come down and interview the General in command of our troops. This was done, O’Connelly being carried down on a stretcher, as he was wounded in the leg. Whilst standing by, we came across the dead body of O’Reilly [the O’Rahilly], the acting adjutant. 7:00 p.m. The whole lot of the rebels decided to surrender and to see them troop out of the house in Moore Street between three and four hundred of them. The several storming parties were ordered to stand by just in time, as the next house we were about to enter from the back, 36 Sein Feinners came out of the front. Part of these men were marched up to the Rotunda and there searched, and part we searched. 100 men of one Battalion were the escort. The whole of the rebels were corralled on the green for the night at the Rotunda Hospital under a strong guard.’ A full transcript of the recipient’s Diary, including explanatory footnotes regarding the street names (many of which no longer exist or have been renamed) is published in ‘The 1916 Diaries’, by Mick O’Farrell, a copy of which book is included with the lot. Samuel Henry Lomas was born in Tideswell, Derbyshire, and attested there for the Derbyshire Regiment on 3 March 1900, having previously served with the Regiment’s 2nd Volunteer Battalion. He served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War from 16 March 1901 to 26 May 1902, and was discharged on 27 May 1902, after 2 years and 86 days’ service. Reverting to the Volunteers, Lomas then re-enlisted in the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) at Chesterfield on 31 October 1914, and was posted to the 2nd/6th (Reserve) Battalion. Promoted Company Sergeant Major and appointed Warrant Officer Class II on 13 March 1915, he served at home, and in Apr...

A Great War ‘Gouzeaucourt, December 1917’ D.C.M. group of five awarded to Company Sergeant-Major E. Frost, Grenadier Guards, who was mortally wounded by shell fire on 30 July 1918 Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (8421 C. S. Mjr: E. Frost. 1/G. Gds:); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (8421 Corpl: E. Frost. Gren: Gds:); 1914-15 Star (8421 Sjt. E. Frost. G. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (8421 W.O. Cl. II. E. Frost. G. Gds.) medals unmounted, together with Memorial Plaque (Elijah Frost), this with post and nut fitting soldered to reverse, the Q.S.A. nearly very fine, otherwise toned nearly extremely fine (6) £1,200-£1,600 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 28 March 1918: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in an attack. Seeing that one of the platoon sergeants had become a casualty and that the platoon was losing direction and suffering casualties from machine-gun fire, he doubled across the open to the platoon under heavy fire. He corrected their direction, ordered a sergeant to take command, and enabled them to reach their objective. He showed great promptness and initiative.’ Annotated gazette states: ‘Gouzeaucourt, 1 December 1917.’ Elijah Frost was a native of Long Eaton, Derbyshire, son of James and Mary Frost. He enlisted at Nottingham and served with the 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards, in France from 1 May 1915. He won the D.C.M. for gallantry at Gouzeaucourt during the attack by 3rd Guards Brigade on the village of Gonnelieu on the morning of 1 December 1917. He was wounded by shell fire on 30 July 1918, and died of his wounds that night. Company Sergeant-Major Frost is buried in Bac-du-Sud British Cemetery, Bailleulval. Sold with Memorial Scroll (Coy. Serjt. Maj. Elijah Frost, D.C.M. Grenadier Guards) this with applied medal ribbons, torn in places; together with copied research including war diary extracts and detailed report on the attack of 1 December 1917.

A Boer War M.V.O. and Order of St John group of five awarded to J. G. Hamilton, Esq., Honorary Civilian Director of Imperial Yeomanry Hospitals, afterwards a Member of the Legislative Assembly for Transvaal and Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding the Witwatersrand Rifles 1903-05 The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O., Member’s 4th Class, breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels, the reverse officially numbered ‘106’; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knight of Grace, set of insignia, comprising neck badge, silver and enamel, and breast star, silver and enamel with gold pin for wearing; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Director J. G. Hamilton, I.Y., Hp. Staff.) officially engraved naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Director & Treas: J. G. Hamilton, I.Y. Hosp:) officially engraved naming; Union of South Africa Medal 1910, unnamed as issued, minor enamel chips to the first, otherwise toned, extremely fine (6) £1,800-£2,200 --- M.V.O. London Gazette 20 February 1903: ‘John Gardiner Hamilton, Esq., Honorary Civilian Director of the Imperial Yeomanry Hospitals, South Africa.’ Knight of Grace, Order of St John London Gazette 8 May 1903. John Gardiner Hamilton was born in 1859, fourth son of James Hamilton, of New Park, County Mayo. He was educated at Croom’s High School, Greenwich, Merchant Taylor’s School, London, and privately. He entered the British Civil Service and was up to 1889 in the General Post Office, London. He afterwards went to South Africa where he settled in Johannesburg and became chairman and director of several Transvaal companies. He was three times Vice-president of the Transvaal Chamber of Mines (elected President in 1912). He was appointed Hon. Director and Treasurer in South Africa of the Imperial Yeomanry Hospitals during the Boer War of 1899-1902 (mentioned in despatches; Queen’s medal with three clasps, and King’s medal with two clasps; created M.V.O. (4th Class) 1903.). He was employed in China in connection with the supply of Chinese labour for the Rand Mines; and, in 1907, was elected Member of the Legislative Assembly (Opposition Chief Whip) of the Transvaal for Springs District for the duration of the life of that parliament; Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding Witwatersrand Rifles 1903-05, and thereafter Honorary Colonel until death; was a J.P. for the district of Pretoria, was a Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in England, and held the Union of South Africa medal. He died on 1 July 1912. Sold with copied research including official copy of a letter to Lord Kitchener from the Countess Howe [Patron of the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital fund] in September 1901, bringing forward the name of Mr J. G. Hamilton for his valuable services services with Imperial Yeomanry Hospitals, and for consideration that they be recognised with some honour. An original recommendation for the C.M.G. was struck from the list after the extent of his contribution was somewhat witheringly reduced by Sir Ian Hamilton to the short statement that he had “Lent a palatial mansion & extensive grounds for nearly two years to the Military for a Hospital.”

An Order of St John group of four awarded to Doctor H. D. Buss, M.R.C.S., who served as a Surgeon-Captain in the Volunteer Medical Staff Corps with the Rhodesian Field Force 1900-02, and was in command of base hospitals at Marandellas and Bulawayo The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer’s breast badge, silver, in its Carrington & Co. fitted case of issue; Jubilee 1897, silver, privately named ‘Surg. Capt. H. D. Buss, V.M.S.C.’; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia (Lieut. H. D. Buss. Med: Staff. R.F.F.) officially engraved naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Capt. H. D. Buss. Rhod. F.F.) officially engraved naming, toned, extremely fine £800-£1,000 --- Hon. Associate Member, Order of St John of Jerusalem, 27 February 1900. Howard Decimus Buss was born in Camden, London, in April 1862 and studied at University College London, and at Paris and Montpellier, France, becoming L.S.A in 1884; M.R.C.S. in 1885; and B.A. and B.Sc. University of France in 1890. He was appointed Surgeon-Captain, Volunteer Medical Staff Corps on 24 March 1897 (Queen’s Jubilee Medal 1897), and was attached to base hospital at Marandellas in Rhodesia when he joined the Rhodesian Field Force. He later served at the base hospitals in Tembuland and Bulawayo (Queen’s medal with 2 clasps, King’s medal with 2 clasps), and became M.D. Brussels in 1907; M.R.C.P. London in 1907; Assistant Medical Officer, Leper Asylum, Robben Island in 1913-14; and Assistant Physician, Mental Hospital, Fort Beaufort, in 1919. Doctor Buss died at Fort Beaufort on 24 November 1919, aged 57. During his career he held numerous other posts, both in Europe and South Africa, and he wrote many articles for Medical Journals. Sold with copied research.

A Great War K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G. group of seven awarded to Colonel Sir Henry M. W. Gray, Royal Army Medical Corps, who went to South Africa in 1899 with Sivewright’s Ambulance, an episode mired in controversy, and in the early stages of the Great War was appointed a consulting surgeon to the B.E.F.; post-war he became surgeon-in-chief at the Royal Victorian Hospital, Montreal The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, K.B.E. (Military) Knight Commander’s 1st type set of insignia, comprising neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels, and breast star in silver and enamel; The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge converted for neck wear, silver-gilt and enamels, hallmarked London 1890; The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (H. M. W. Gray. Surgeon.) officially engraved naming ; 1914 Star (Major H. M. W. Gray. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Col. H. M. W. Gray.) generally good very fine (8) £2,600-£3,000 --- K.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919. C.B. London Gazette 1 January 1916. C.M.G. London Gazette 3 June 1918. In The Lancet of 18 November 1899, there appeared the following notice: “Under the auspices of Sir James Sivewright K.C.M.G., who was recently entertained to dinner in Edinburgh by the South African Students' Union, an ambulance corps chiefly composed of Edinburgh medical students connected with the Transvaal has been formed. A portion left Edinburgh on Saturday night for South Africa (Nov. 1899). They will be joined in London by Dr. and Mrs. Gray, Aberdeen, and several nurses. It is said that Sir James Sivewright is to pay the expense of equipment and that a British steamship line will convey the students and material free of cost." ‘There were to be two detachments under the direction of Dr Gray, assistant-surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen. The one group, in charge of Dr Gray himself, included his wife, a British student named Alan Johnson, and three South Africans, L. Fourie, G. H. van Zyl and D. Luther. The other group was in charge of Dr A.C. Neethling, a South African who had recently qualified and was working as a house-surgeon at the Bradford Infirmary. With him were four medical students, A. J. du Toit, W. Walker Hauman, C. T. Möller and J. L.Schoemann, and a nurse, a Mrs. Bamford. They took leave of their fellow students with promises to return soon and complete their interrupted studies, and on 15 November the James Sivewright Ambulance sailed in the Moravian from the Royal Albert Dock, charged to report at Cape Town to the Senior Commanding Officer and from there to 'make their way to the Boer lines by whatever route he may direct'. The Moravian had hardly left England when a storm of abuse broke about Sivewright's head. It could not have been forgotten that until 1898 he was a member of Hofmeyer's Afrikaner Bond in the Cape Parliament. The sympathies of the Bondsmen were known to lie with their fellow Afrikaners in the Transvaal and, although Kruger regarded this support as ineffectual, it seemed little less than treasonable in the eyes of many of Her Majesty's subjects further away in Britain. Sivewright was accused in the press of being a traitor and sending aid to the 'enemies of his native country’. With a flourish of self righteous indignation he protested his neutrality and immediately offered Her Majesty's Government his 4 large properties in Hottentots Holland, to be used as convalescent homes for wounded British officers! On 16 December 1899 the Moravian docked in Cape Town and the Sivewright reported to the Commanding Officer, impatient to be gone on their journey northwards. A telegram was sent to President Kruger, offering their services to the sick and wounded. The reply was startling. President Kruger declined their offer, stating that he did not ‘receive such gifts from an enemy’! The Afrikaners in the party, no less determined to reach their destination but scenting trouble, kept in the background and urged Dr. Gray to approach Sir Alfred Milner himself and ask for safe conduct to the Boer lines. No details of this interview are available, but the outcome was disappointing. It may be guessed that Milner disapproved thoroughly of the entire scheme and found in Kruger's telegram confirmation of his own opinion of the Boers. In the end they abandoned their attempts to travel up through the Cape Colony and were given passages on board the Congella, bound for Delagoa Bay. On 26 December the Sivewright Ambulance, their optimism revived, disembarked at Lourenco Marques and presented themselves to Mr. Pott, the Transvaal Consul. Their arrival had evidently been anticipated - and not alone by Mr. Pott. According to Alan Johnson, one of the 3 British members of the corps, this gentleman ‘told them curtly that they were not wanted, declaring that there were no wounded to require their care’. Dr. Gray's consternation may be imagined, the more so as he began to suspect that the Consul's message was directed at the British element of the corps. Matters were not improved, either, by the discovery that Gray was carrying letters from friends to British officers in the Transvaal. Again he saw Mr. Pott, explained the purpose of their mission, and assured him of the goodwill that had launched this venture which now, at the last moment, appeared to be in danger of floundering. The reply was the same as before: The Transvaal did not desire any assistance from Sir James Sivewright and would reimburse him all expenses. Meanwhile the Afrikaner medical students had not been still. Some of them had already made contact with a Boer agent operating in Lourenco Marques and learned that they would be allowed across the border if they made their way to Resanna Garcia. When negotiations between Dr. Gray and Mr. Pott broke down, Dr. Neethling acted, promptly. The Afrikaners had no intention of turning back; if they could-get through on their own they would do so. Dr. Gray, however, regarding such action to be totally 'at variance with Sir James Sivewright's intentions’ refused to hand over the surgical equipment. A telegram was sent to Sir James without further delay. His reply was unequivocal: All the equipment was to be handed over to Dr. Neethling and he and the other Afrikaners should proceed to Pretoria. Whether, as Alan Johnson later contended, the object of the Transvaal Government was merely to get rid of the British members of the expedition, cannot be known for certain. Against this there is evidence that those who did reach the Transvaal - including the nurse, Mrs. Bamford - did so not through any official channel but on their own initiative. Nevertheless, a tirade broke when the news reached London. The Times' correspondent stated openly that the expedition had been used ‘as a cloak to smuggle into the Transvaal men with Boer sympathies who would otherwise have been stopped’. In ‘a leading West End club', rumour flared into open accusation: an armed group of Afrikaners had cheated their way into the Transvaal to join the Boer forces, and Sir James Sivewright had been their dupe! The latter denied the charge vehemently and offered £1,000 to the Lord Mayor's Fund if it could be proved. In any case, he pointed out, as. Cape Colonials they were all British subjects and if caught with guns would be treated as rebels! Of Dr. and Mrs. Gray and Alan Johnson little more was heard. Sad and disillusioned they made their way back to Durban and offered their services to the Imperial Army. On 2 January 1900 Dr. Neethling and the rest of his group reached Pretoria. As individuals they we...

Pair: Civil Surgeon D. J. Menzies-Conacher, attached 3rd Highland Brigade Field Hospital, late Assistant Chief Surgeon, Gold Coast Constabulary, who was taken prisoner when a convoy of 50 wagons, with 160 details of the Highland Brigade, surrendered at Zwavel Krans on 4 June 1900 East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, 1897-98 (Asst. C. Surgeon D. J. M. Conacher, G.C. Constby:) officially impressed naming; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, South Africa 1901 (D. J. Menzies-Conacher. Surgeon.) officially engraved naming, toned, extremely fine (2) £600-£800 --- Civil Surgeon D. J. Menzies-Conacher served as Assistant Chief Surgeon with the Gold Coast Constabulary during operations in West Africa from 1897-98. He was Civil Surgeon attached to 3rd (Highland) Brigade Field Hospital in South Africa from 13 January 1900. He was taken prisoner when a convoy of 50 wagons, proceeding from Rhenoster to Heilbron, under Lieutenant Corballis, Reserve of Officers, with 160 details of the Highland Brigade, surrendered at Zwavel Krans, near Heilbron, on 4 June 1900. ‘On the 13th June Civil Surgeon Connacher (sic), who had been taken prisoner with the convoy, was returned to us by President Steyn, and told us its story. He said that the convoy, with an escort of 160 infantry, had left the railway near Roodevaal on the evening of the 2nd June, and had trekked (with one long halt) till eight on the following morning; then, after halting till one in the afternoon, had marched till five, when it had outspanned to the north of the Elands Spruit, near Zwaal Krantz (i.e., nine miles from the railway and fourteen from Heilbron on the Prospect-Heilbron road). There, seeing that there were Boers to the right and front, the commanding officer had sent runners to Heilbron and Vredefort for help, and had extended the men and dug rifle-pits. They were not molested during the night, but at seven o'clock on the morning of the 4th the Boers sent in a message under a white flag calling on the officer commanding the party to surrender. As the enemy was 4,000 strong, with several guns, he agreed to do this, only stipulating that the mails which he was bringing for the division should be forwarded to Heilbron. This condition was not fulfilled, as the mails were all burnt. Surgeon Connacher said that before leaving Roodevaal the Commandant and the officer commanding the convoy had discussed my telegram to the effect that I considered that the proposed escort was inadequate.’ (The Work of the Ninth Division refers). When the proceeding of the Court of Enquiry on Lieutenant Corballis were received at the War Office and had been reviewed, it was decided by the then Commander-in-Chief that, in view of his conduct in the matter, Lieutenant Corballis should receive neither the South African medal nor the war gratuity. Surgeon Menzies-Conacher, meanwhile, was left sick at Reitz on 7 July 1900, and returned to England later that year on termination of his engagement. Sold with copied research including medal roll entries.

Pair: Orderly W. Andison, Leicester Corps, St John Ambulance Corps Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (489 Ordly: W. Andison, St. John Amb: Bde:) officially impressed naming, clasps loose on ribbon as issued; St. John Medal for South Africa 1899-1902 (489 Pte. W. Anderson Leicester Corps.) note spelling of surname, toned, very fine (2) £400-£500

Three: Doctor C. W. J. Chepmell, Assistant Commissioner for Natal for the Central British Red Cross Committee, and afterwards a Surgeon for the P&O Shipping Line Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Natal (Mr. C. W. J. Chepmell, B.R.C. Society) officially impressed naming; Transport 1899-1902, 1 clasp, S. Africa 1899-1902 (C. Chepmell.) officially impressed naming; British War Medal 1914-20 (Charles W. J. Chepmell) a few edge bruises, otherwise very fine (3) £800-£1,000 --- Charles William James Chepmell was born in 1860 and completed his studies in medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1887. In 1889 he was awarded the degree M.D. with distinction by the University of Brussels (Belgium) and was also admitted as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in England. His war service started when he landed at Cape Town on 8 January 1900, in his capacity as Assistant Commissioner for Natal for the Central British Red Cross Society. This body had been officially recognised as being responsible for organising ‘the reception and forwarding of the various gifts and voluntary supplies of clothing, comforts and luxuries to the sick and wounded in all parts of the country.’ Chepmell proceeded to Pietermaritzburg and carried out his duties with great energy and success until being obliged by illness to resign his post in June 1900. For these services he received the Q.S.A. Medal. He subsequently joined the P&O Shipping Line as a Surgeon and was appointed to the S.S. Manila on 5 March 1901. He was in medical charge of troops and prisoners-of-war in South African waters for a number of months, and subsequently received the Transport Medal. After service on other P&O liners, he also served in a hospital in Malaya. In 1902 he served on the S.S. Australia, but resigned, having been reported for insobriety in June 1902. He returned to England and was in private practice in London. For services during WWI he received the British and Mercantile Marine War Medals. He died in 1935. Sold with copied research including copied medal rolls for Q.S.A. (16 medals to B.R.C.S.), Transport and Great War medals, and the conclusions of a detailed report by Doctor Chepmell from Pietermaritzburg in October 1900 to the committee British Red Cross Society.

Pair: Private S. Collins, Suffolk Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (4164 Pte S. Collins, 1st Suffolk Regt); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4164 Pte S. Collins. Suffolk Regt) light contact marks, otherwise good very fine (2) £100-£140

An important Boer War C.B. group of three awarded to Doctor Kendal Franks, Consulting Surgeon to H.M. Forces in South Africa The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Civil) Companion’s breast badge, 18 carat gold, hallmarked London 1887, complete with gold ribbon bar; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg (Dr. Kendal Franks, Consulting Surgn:) officially engraved naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Doctor Kendal Franks att. to R.A.M.C.) officially engraved naming, mounted as worn; together with a very fine 18 carat gold and enamel, diamond-set Abercorn Masonic Lodge presentation jewel, hallmarked London 1902, approx 20.9g with old cut diamond approx 35 points, the reverse inscribed ‘Presented to R.W.B. Dr. Kendall Franks C.B. by his friends in the Abercorn Lodge 1903’, fitted with gold rings and hinged retaining clip for wearing, nearly extremely fine (4) £2,400-£2,800 --- C.B. London Gazette 19 April 1901: ‘Kendal Franks, Esq., M.D.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 8 February 1901: ‘Mr Watson Cheyne and Mr Kendal Franks, M.B., F.R.C.S.I., Consulting Surgeons, who have accompanied the Army, have rendered invaluable service by their advice and assistance to the Medical Officers. They have been unwearying in their work among the wounded and sick, and, humanly speaking, many a valuable life has been saved by their skill.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 16 April 1901: ‘Many thanks are also due to the distinguished consulting surgeons who have come out to this country, and by their advice and experience materially aided the Royal Army Medical Corps. The services rendered by... Mr. Kendal Franks... were of incalculable value.’ Kendal Franks was born in Dublin on 8 February 1851, the fourth son of Robert Fergusson Franks, a barrister of Jerpoint Hill in County Kilkenny, and his wife, Henriette Bushe, daughter of Charles Kendal Bushe, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, and a prominent Irish aristocrat. Franks entered Trinity College, Dublin, where he had a distinguished career, obtaining the degree of B.A. in 1872 and the M.B. in 1875. After this he became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and went on to Leipzig to complete his medical studies. On his return in 1876, he was appointed a demonstrator in anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons and surgeon to the Dublin Throat and Ear Hospital. In the same year he obtained the M.D. and became a member of the senate of the University of Dublin. This was followed in 1878 by the Fellowship of the Irish College of Surgeons and in the same year he became senior surgeon to the Adelaide Hospital in Dublin. Here he pioneered in Ireland the implementation of Lister’s principles of antisepsis and asepsis. He also became surgeon-in-ordinary to the lord-lieutenant and vice-president of the Irish College of Surgeons. Franks married twice: in 1879 Charlotte Selina Greene, sister of Sir William Conyngham Greene, later the British Agent in the Transvaal Republic; two years after her death in 1883 he married Gertrude Jane Butt, who contracted tuberculosis, and was advised to come to South Africa. Forced to abandon a brilliant professional career in Ireland, Franks and his family arrived in South Africa in 1896, and settled at Beaufort West, but his wife died the same year. Franks decided to remain in South Africa and moved to Johannesburg in 1897 where he was very successful and enjoyed a tremendous reputation. Appointed one of the five consulting surgeons to the British forces during the Second Anglo-Boer War, and attached by Lord Roberts to his headquarters staff, he accompanied Roberts all through the campaign. He was present at the engagements at Paardeberg (27 February 1900) and Driefontein (10 March 1900), and at the entry into Bloemfontein (13 March 1900), Johannesburg (31 May 1900), and Pretoria (5 June 1900). He journeyed back to England with Lord Roberts, and in 1901 was gazetted a C.B. (Civil) for his services, having been twice mentioned in dispatches. On his return to South Africa in 1901, he was again appointed consulting surgeon to the British forces, and shortly afterwards undertook, at the special request of Lord Kitchener, an inspection of all the concentration camps; his reports on these were published in the Blue Books, and extracted at length by the London Times and other papers. He was again mentioned in dispatches and in 1904 was knighted for his services. At the conclusion of the war he was made a nominee member of the first Transvaal Medical Council, but failed to obtain nomination to the second Council. He gave evidence to the Financial Relations Commission of the Transvaal Colony in 1905, outlining a hospital scheme for the Witwatersrand, with the Johannesburg Hospital as centre. He drew attention to the unsatisfactory provision made for public health in the Transvaal before Union and also under the act of Union (1909), as well as to the need for a medical school in Johannesburg. Using his influence to convert the Witwatersrand Medical Council into a branch of the British Medical Association, he became the first president of the South African committee of this association, and laid the foundation stones of the South African Institute for Medical Research in 1912. In the same year he acted as president of the 1912 South African Medical Congress which was held in Johannesburg. He continued to advocate the establishment of a medical school there, and in 1916 chaired a meeting of registered medical practitioners of the Transvaal which was convened to discuss this matter. Franks held the post of surgeon to the Johannesburg Hospital, consulting surgeon to the Central South African Railways, and medical director of the African Life Assurance Society. In the Johannesburg of his day, when surgeons combined surgery with general practice, he was the first "specialist" surgeon, and was considered a world expert in renal surgery. He made valuable contributions to medical literature, and several publications appeared under his name, such as Addison’s disease (1882), On spontaneous dislocation of the hip (1883), A case of cerebral cyst (1888), and Professor Koch’s treatment of tuberculosis (1891). He also contributed many articles to various medical journals, including the Transvaal Medical Journal and the South African Medical Journal. Apart from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, he was a Fellow of the Medico Chirurgical Society of London, of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, and of the Royal Society of South Africa. He was said to be a skilful water-colourist. For the last few years of his life he suffered considerable ill health which was due to diabetes, and became a confirmed invalid. His death occurred at his residence “Kilmurry”, Klein Street, Hospital Hill. Sold with three small gilt tunic buttons together with copied research.

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (K. Taylor, Servant.) officially impressed naming, good very fine and rare £200-£300 --- Kate Taylor is confirmed on the roll as one of three Maidservants to Nursing Sisters at No. 9 General Hospital, Bloemfontein, and was invalided to Base at Cape Town on 29 September 1900. Sold with copied medal roll.

Four: Colour Sergeant T. Tyrrell, Suffolk Regiment, wounded at Buffels Spruit, 9 September 1900 India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Hazara 1888 (315 Corpl T. Tyrrell 1st Bn Suff. R.) suspension slack; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (315 Sgt T. Tyrrell, 1st Suffolk Regt); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (315 Clr:-Serjt: T. Tyrrell. Suffolk Regt); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (315 Serjt: T. Tyrrell. Suffolk Regt) generally very fine (4) £360-£440 --- Thomas Tyrrell was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk. He attested for the Suffolk Regiment at Bury St. Edmunds in August 1882. He served with the 1st Battalion in the East Indies from December 1883 to March 1892. Tyrrell advanced Corporal in December 1887, and to Sergeant in August 1889. He served with the Battalion in South Africa from November 1899 until September 1902, and was wounded at Buffels Spruit on 9 September 1900 (awarded L.S. & G.C. in 1901). Tyrrell advanced to Colour Sergeant in July 1901. He was discharged on 31 October 1903, having served 21 years and 79 days with the Colours. Sold with copied service papers.

A BOER WAR QUEEN'S SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL AND A WWII 1939-45 MEDAL, the QSA is correctly named to 2765 CPL W LUTON 23rd Coy IMP YEO, Mr Lupton was serving with the 8th battalion Imperial Yeomanry of the South Africa Field Force, online records suggest he was wounded at Faber on the 30th May 1900, the medal comes with bars for South Africa 1901, Orange free state and Cape Colony, the 1939-45 WWII medal is un-named as issued and is missing its ribbon, Customers must satisfy themselves prior to sale in regards to conditions and authenticity, viewing is advised, condition reports are available on request

Housed in wooden frame. Print decorated with embellishments applied to paper. Depicts saint with crown and dressed in ornate cape. Gilt accents. Sight size: 11.75 in. L x 14.5 in. H. Frame size: 12.75 in. L x 15.75 in. H x 0.75 in. Depth. Manufacturer: F. SilberCountry of Origin: GermanyCondition: Age related wear, with some chipping to frame.