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496
Pair: Serjeant G. Pile, Border Scouts, late Protectorate Regiment Frontier Force
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Orange Free State, Defence of Mafeking, Transvaal (6 Tpr., Protect. F.F.);
KING’S SOUTH AFRICA 1901-02, 2 clasps (815 Serjt., Border Scouts) good very fine (2) £900-1100
Trooper G. Pile served in ‘A’ Squadron Protectorate Regiment Frontier Force during the defence of Mafeking. Clasps confirmed.
497
Five: Private W. McLean, Seaforth Highlanders
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Transvaal (6204 Pte., 2 Sea. Highrs.);
KING’S SOUTH AFRICA 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (6204 Pte., Seaforth Highrs.); 1914 STAR, WITH
CLASP (6204 Pte., 1/Sea. Highrs.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (6204 Pte., Sea. Highrs.), mounted as worn, the first with
slack suspension claw and the Boer War awards with contact marks and somewhat polished, thus nearly very fine, the
remainder rather better (5) £340-380
Worthy McLean was discharged in August 1915 and awarded the Silver War Badge.
The 1st Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders arrived in France direct from India in early October 1914, and suffered heavy casualties over
the coming weeks, often as a result of accurate sniper fire in positions around Neuve Chapelle and Festubert - by the end of the year
over 50 men had been killed and another 200 wounded.
498
Five: Private W. H. Ryan, Royal Canadian Regiment, late Leinster and Essex Regiments
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (3619 Pte., 2-
Leins. R.) late issue; 1914 STAR, with copy clasp (9823 Pte., 2/Essex R.) gilded; BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (9823 Pte.,
Essex R.); ARMY L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Canada (Pte., R.C.R.) very fine and better (6) £260-300
William Henry Ryan’s original Queen’s South Africa Medal was forfeited in 1906. It was restored with his re-enlistment for service in
the Great War. Serving with the 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 22 August 1914. Later
made a prisoner-of-war. Clasp to 1914 Star confirmed. With Leinster Regiment cap badge, copied m.i.c. and other research.
499
Four: Major Bertie Stedman Joseph McMurray, 108th Indian Infantry, attached South Persia Rifles, late Leinster
Regiment, who died on 12 June 1918
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (2 Lieut., Leins.
R.) correction to middle initial; BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Major); DELHI DURBAR 1911 (Captn. 108th Infy.); MEMORIAL
PLAQUE (Bertie Stedman Joseph Macmurray (sic)) first with minor edge bruising, nearly extremely fine (5) £380-420
Bertie Stedman Joseph McMurray was born on 27 October 1880. Embodied with the Militia, 3 May-11 December 1900 and attached
to a regular battalion, 7 May-16 August 1901. Commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Leinster Regiment on 29 January 1902 and served
in the Boer War. Promoted a Lieutenant in the Leinster Regiment on 11 May 1904, he transferred to the Indian Army in May 1905,
being appointed to the 108th Infantry. McMurray was promoted to Captain in March 1912. As a Major he served throughout the Great
War in East Africa and Mesopotamia. He died on 12 June 1918 whilst on attachment to the South Persia Rifles. He was buried in the
Tehran War Cemetery. With copied research.
500
Pair: Sergeant W. Lane, Welsh Regiment
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 7 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill,
Belfast, South Africa 1901 (4444 Pte. W. Lane, Welsh Regt.); BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914-20 (4444 Sjt. W. Lane, Welsh R.)
good fine (2) £350-400
501
Six: Lieutenant A. E. Nash, Supply and Transport Corps
CHINA 1900, no clasp (Sergeant Major, S. & T. Corps) ‘&’ re-engraved; 1914-15 STAR (Condr., S. & T. Corps); BRITISH WAR
MEDAL 1914-20 (Lt); VICTORY MEDAL 1914-19, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lieut.); ARMY L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (Sub-Conductor,
S. & T. Corps); FRANCE, MEDAILLE MILITAIRE, silver, gilt and enamel, good very fine (6) £300-340
Medaille Militaire London Gazette 6 November 1918. ‘Conductor (Now Assistant Commissary and Honorary Lieutenant) Albert Edward
Nash, Supply & Transport Corps, Indian Army.
M.I.D. London Gazette 10 July 1919 (France). ‘Temp. Captain attached 38th Divisional Train R.A.S.C.
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