SINGLE CAMPAIGN MEDALS
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QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (2822 Pte. H. Brown, 2 R.
Scots Fus.) some edge bruising, good very fine £120-160
Harry Brown was born in Govan, Glasgow. A Labourer by occupation and a member of the 3rd Volunteer Battalion Highland Light
Infantry, he attested for the Royal Scots Fusiliers at Ayr on 22 April 1890, aged 18 years, 1 month. With the 1st Battalion Royal Scots
Fusiliers he served in the East Indies, March 1893-November 1896. He was transferred to the Army Reserve in April 1897 but was
recalled to service in October 1899. With the 2nd Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers he was posted to South Africa, October 1899-July
1902. In November 1901 he was convicted by Court Martial for insubordination and sentenced to 84 days field imprisonment. Brown
was discharged from the Army having completed his period of engagement on 6 August 1902.
With blue hat-band ribbon ‘Relief of Ladysmith, Feb. 26th, 1900, Buller White, 2nd Batt. Royal Scots Fusiliers ...’, and with a delicate
(frayed) silk handkerchief listing the ‘Engagements of the 2nd Batt. Royal Scots Fusiliers, South Africa ....’ Also with copied service
papers.
160
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein (3571 Pte. E. Merryweather,
6/Dn. Gds.) edge bruising to reverse, good very fine £120-160
3571 Shoeing-Smith E. Merryweather, 6th Dragoon Guards, died of disease at Bloemfontein, 2 June 1900. His name is commemorated
on the Carabiniers Boer War Memorial, Chelsea Embankment.
161
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (Capt. R. C. Dunn, Lanc. Fus.
M.I.) minor edge bruising and polished, very fine £300-350
Ex Usher Collection.
Robert Charles Dunn was born in April 1877 and commissioned into the Lancashire Fusiliers as a 2nd Lieutenant in February 1899 and
was promoted to Lieutenant in October the same year and to Captain in June 1902. As part of the 1st Battalion stationed on Malta at
the end of 1901, Dunn was seconded for service in the Mounted Infantry Company in South Africa, disembarking at Durban in January
1902. Equipped with ‘raw and unbroken’ Russian ponies, the Company made its way to Brigadier-General Cunningham’s command
and was ordered to Zuikerbosch Rand, a ‘hilly and dangerous’ part of the countryside ‘which favoured the enemy’ under De Wet’s
command. Sure enough, on 12 February 1902, when ordered to sieze Blesboklaagte Farm, Dunn and his men became embroiled in a
desperate action against superior Boer forces. Because their unreliable Russian ponies bolted, they were obliged to make a stand on the
open veldt, where they defended themselves with ‘great gallantry’, refusing to surrender until nearly every man had either been killed
or wounded, as the Boers had closed to within 30 yards and were firing at almost point-blank range. Lieutenant Dunn was amongst the
latter, being dangerously wounded, shot through the chest and spine. No doubt as a result of these wounds, he was placed on Half Pay
in November 1903 and finally retired in November 1908. With some copied research.
162
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (3403 Pte. J. Graham, L’pool. Regt.)
extremely fine £120-160
Private J. Graham, 1st Battalion Liverpool Regiment, was taken prisoner at Helvetia, 29 December 1900. He was later released.
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