CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS
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Four: Squadron Corporal-Major Alexander Blair, Royal Horse Guards, who died of Enteric Fever, 16 March 1900
EGYPT AND SUDAN 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (1077 Pte., Rl. H. ....); QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 1
clasp, Relief of Kimberley (1077 Sdn. Corl-Major, R.H. Gds.); ARMY L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse
(1077 Sq. Corp. Maj., R.H. Gds.); KHEDIVE’S STAR 1882, reverse impressed, ‘R.H.G. 1077’, first and last with edge bruising
and heavy contact marks, fine; others good very fine and better (4) £380-420
Alexander Blair was born in Inverness. He joined the Royal Horse Guards on 31 March 1880, aged 21 years, 2 months. He served with
the regiment in the Egypt Campaign of 1882 and was promoted Lance-Corporal in August 1887; Corporal in December 1887; Corporal
of Horse in June 1889 and Squadron Corporal-Major in October 1897. Serving then in South Africa, he died of Enteric Fever at
Kimberley on 16 March 1900. With copied research including: roll extracts, a photocopied photograph of the recipient and modern
photographs of Corporal-Major Blair’s headstone and grave in the cemetery at Kimberley.
550
Pair: Private A. Lane, Gordon Highlanders
EGYPT AND SUDAN 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (567 Pte. A. Lane, 1/Gord. Highrs.); KHEDIVE’S STAR, 1882,
unnamed, edge nicks and minor contact wear, otherwise very fine or better (2) £180-220
Alfred Lane was born in Beauminster, Dorset and enlisted in the 39th Brigade at Weymouth in 1877, aged 21 years. Joining the Gordon
Highlanders in July 1881, he served in Egypt from August 1882 to June 1883, where he was present at Tel-el-Kebir, and was finally
discharged in May 1889; sold with copied service papers.
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Three: Stoker J. Tooker, Royal Navy, afterwards H.M. Coast Guard
EGYPT 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Suakin 1884 (J. Tooker, Stokr., H.M.S. Carysfort); ROYAL NAVY L.S. & G.C., V.R.,
narrow suspension (Jas. Tooker, Boatman, H.M. Coast Guard); KHEDIVE’S STAR 1882, contact marks and polished, fine or
better (3) £180-220
James Tooker was born in Cork in May 1858 and entered the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class in December 1879. Having then served
off Egypt in the Suakin operations of 1884, and been awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in January 1891, he transferred to the Coast Guard
at Newhaven in September of the same year. He was finally released in the rate of Commissioned Boatman in May 1908; also see Lot
686 for his son’s awards.
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Five: Petty Officer G. Wills, Royal Navy
EAST AND WEST AFRICA 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Benin 1897 (177861 G. Wills, Ord. Sea. H.M.S. St George) slightly later issue
with some official corrections to naming; QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, no clasp (177861 G. Wills, A.B. H.M.S.
Sybille) slightly later issue with some official corrections to initial; 1914-15 STAR, naming erased; BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY
MEDALS (177861 G. Wills P.O. R.N.) good very fine (5) £150-180
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Three: Private H. Patton, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (3822 Pte. H. Patton, 2d Bn. Arg. & Suth. Highrs.);
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Modder River, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Transvaal (3822 Pte. H. Patton, A. &
S. Highrs.); KING’S SOUTH AFRICA 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3822 Pte. H. Paton, A. and S.
Highrs.), note spelling of surname on this last, the first two with official corrections to naming, contact marks and edge
bruising, nearly very fine or better (3) £340-380
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Three: Private G. Tomkin, Royal Sussex Regiment, killed in action at Abraham’s Kraal in January 1902
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (3488 Pte. G. Tomlin, 2d Bn. Ryl.
Suss. Regt.); QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (3488
Pte. G. Tomlin, 1st Rl. Sussex Regt.); KING‘S SOUTH AFRICA 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3488
Pte. G. Tomlin, Rl. Sussex Regt.) extremely fine (3) £550-650
Private G. Tomkin was killed in action at Abraham’s Kraal on 28 January 1902.
Early in 1901 Bt-Lieut-Colonel L. E. Du Moulin, Royal Sussex Regiment, was put in command of a small column, including his own
battalion. This column operated in the Orange River Colony, chiefly to the west of the Bloemfontein railway. On 28 January 1902, the
column was bivouacked behind a small kopje on the south of the Riet, near Abraham’s Kraal. At 1 a.m. the picquet holding the kopje
was rushed. Colonel Du Moulin, as he hurried out to repel the enemy, was killed, but Major Gilbert taking command, the kopje was
recaptured and successfully held against a second attack. The Sussex lost, in addition to their colonel, 10 men killed and 6 wounded.
Speaking of the colonel’s death, Lord Kitchener used the words, “Whose loss to the army as a leader of promise I greatly deplore.”
Sold with medal roll confirmation, further details of the action and colour photographs of the Royal Sussex Boer War Memorial.
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