CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS
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Three: Private Kennan, King’s African Rifles
AFRICA GENERAL SERVICE 1902-56, 1 clasp, Nyasaland 1915 (737 Pte. Kenan, ‘H’ Coy. 1/K.A.R.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY
MEDALS (737 Pte. Kennan, 1/K.A.R.) note different spelling of name, mounted for wear
Pair: Private Mbwana, King’s African Rifles
BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (3627 Pte. 2/K.A.R.) mounted for wear
BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914-20 (2) (7972 Pte. Ncici Kafoki, 3/K.A.R.; 1541 Pte. Jani, Rhodesian Regt.) these two lacking
suspensions, all with edge bruising, details worn, poor (7) £100-150
Mbwana, a member of the Yao Tribe, from the village of Ngata, in the district of Malokotera, enlisted into the King’s African Rifles at
Zomba on 5 September 1916. He was stationed in East Africa, October 1916-January 1919, and he served in operations in the Lindi
Area, June-December 1917 and was later with ‘Mobforce’. On the defaulter’s sheet in January 1918, he received 10 lashes for
disobeying an order. Mbwana was discharged, ‘time expired’ on 12 May 1919. With copied service papers and research. Medals to
‘Kennan’ with copied roll extract.
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Five: Sub-Conductor J. R. Baxter, Indian Army Ordnance Corps
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (3847037 S-Sjt., I.A.O.C.); INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1936
-39, 2 clasps, North West Frontier 1936-37, North West Frontier 1937-39 (S-Condr., I.A.O.C.) second clasp loose; WAR
AND INDIA SERVICE MEDALS, unnamed; ARMY L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (S-Sjt., I.A.O.C.) mounted as worn;
together with King’s Badge and riband bar, good very fine (6) £300-350
Awarded the King’s Badge for those servicemen who had been invalided out of the services - this not confirmed.
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Four: Private J. Heather, Royal Tank Corps
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (7876992 Pte., R. Tank C.); 1939-45STAR;DEFENCE AND
WAR MEDALS 1939-45, good very fine (4) £80-100
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Pair: Sepoy Nek Bakht, Indian Army
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1908-35, 3 clasps, North West Frontier 1930-31, Mohmand 1933, North West Frontier 1935 (58057
Sep., F.C.); INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1936-39, 2 clasps, North West Frontier 1936-37, North West Frontier 1937-39 (59066-A
Sepoy, F.C.) good very fine and better (2) £100-140
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Five: Lieutenant-Colonel A. L. Otway, Royal Army Medical Corps
1914 STAR, with clasp (Capt., R.A.M.C.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS, small M.I.D. oak leaf emblem (Lt. Col.); DEFENCE
AND WAR MEDALS, these unnamed, mounted as worn; together with a mounted set of five miniature dress medals, good
very fine (10) £250-300
M.I.D. London Gazette 19 October 1914.
Alexander Loftus Otway was born in Waterford on 19 June 1880. Studying medicine at Trinity College Dublin and at London, he
gained the M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O. and D.P.H. Entering the Army, he was commissioned a Lieutenant in the R.A.M.C. on 30 January 1904.
He was promoted to Captain in July 1907. As such he served in India, 1905-10 and then with the B.E.F. in France and Flanders in the
Great War, 14 August 1914-May 1915, being invalided and mentioned in despatches. He was promoted to Major in July 1915 and
served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, December 1917-October 1918. Otway was in command of 130 Field Ambulance from
January 1918 and held the acting rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, January 1918-February 1919. After the war he served in India, 1919-22
and the Gold Coast, 1924-25. In July 1927 he was granted the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. With the onset of the Second World War,
Lieutenant-Colonel Otway was appointed Commanding Officer of the Military Hospital Londonderry. With ‘Great War’ riband bar and
some copied research. See lot 894 for another medal to the ‘Otway’ family.
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Four: Serjeant J. Elmer, 9th Lancers
1914 STAR (4706 Sjt., 9/Lrs.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (L-4706 Sjt., 9-Lrs.); ARMY L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (L
-12813 Sjt., 9/Lrs.); together with a ROYAL NAVAL AND MILITARY TOURNAMENT MEDAL, 38mm., bronze, reverse inscribed,
‘Shorncliffe 1911 Sgt. Elmer, 9th Lancers, Sword v Lance’, medals with some edge bruising and contact marks, nearly
very fine (8) £240-280
Sold with three silver plate trophies: 1. Ornate Silver Bowl, by Mappin & Webb,
215mm. max. dia., 160mm. height, inscribed, ‘Regimental Sports 9th Q.R.
Lancers 1911, Sword v Lance, 1st Prize won by Sgt. Elmer’; 2. Ornate Silver
Bowl, by Mappin & Webb, 175mm. max. dia., 110mm. height, inscribed,
‘Regimental Sports, 9th Q.R. Lancers 1911, Section Tent Pegging won by Sgt.
Elmer’; Silver Tankard, 86mm. dia., 130mm. height, inscribed, ‘Regimental Sports
9th (Q.R.) Lancers 1912 Section Tent Pegging 1st Prize won by Sergeant
Elmer’ (all dimensions are approximate).
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