SINGLE CAMPAIGN MEDALS 446
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith (Capt. H. W. P. Waters, S. Lanc. Rgt.) good very fine
£200-250
Horace William Plews Waters was born on 30 September 1866. Commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the South Lancashire Regiment on 11 February 1888, he was promoted to Lieutenant in September 1889 and Captain in June 1896. During the Boer War he served in the relief of Ladysmith, including operations of 17-24 January 1900 and the action at Spion Kop; also operations of 5-7 February 1900 and action at Vaal Kranz, and operations on Tugela Heights, 14-27 February 1900. Captain Waters was placed on Half Pay on 8 August 1900. With copied roll extract and other research.
447
F. Ashton served as a Trumpeter in the 1st Dragoon Guards. With copied roll extract. QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (4371 Tptr. F. Ashton, 1st Dgn.
Gds.) good very fine 448 449 £100-140
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Wittebergen, Belfast (1937 Pte. T. Ryan, 1st Rl. Irish Regt.) edge bruise to reverse, good very fine
£100-140
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Elandslaagte, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (4274 Pte. J. Pater, Gordon Highrs.) light contact marks and edge bruising, very fine
£350-400
4274 Private J. Pater, 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders, was wounded at Elandslaagte, 21 October 1899. By November 1902 he was in the Army Reserve. Awarded the Queen’s medal with three clasps and the King’s medal with two. With copied roll extract.
450
5225 Private J. Crawford, 1st Battalion Manchester Regiment, was wounded at Dundee, 20 October 1899. With copied roll extracts. QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Elandslaagte, Relief of Ladysmith, Belfast (5225 Pte. J. Crawford, Manchester
Regt.) edge bruising, and contact marks, very fine 451 £350-400
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Natal, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (Major A. C. Inglis, A.P.D.) last clasp loose, good very fine
£160-200
Albert Gordon Inglis was born on 9 July 1862. Appointed Paymaster, 1 March 1893 and Staff Paymaster (Major) on 22 June 1901. With copied roll extracts.
452
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
£400-500 Ex Usher Collection.
Robert Charles Dunn was born on 3 April 1877 and commissioned into the 4th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment on 20 October 1897. He then entered the Lancashire Fusiliers as a 2nd Lieutenant in February 1899, being 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.
He was re-employed during the Great War and was awarded the 1914-15 Star trio. In 1917 he was employed by the Ministry of National Service, N.W. Region, at the Art University, Liverpool. For his wartime services he was awarded the O.B.E. Captain Dunn died on 20 March 1929, aged 52 years. With copied research.
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QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (Lieut. R. S. MacKenzie, Rl. Warwick. Rgt.) edge bruising, very fine
£200-240
Invalided 24 October 1900. With copied roll extract. QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Talana, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith (5969 Pte. P. Kelly,
Rl Dublin Fus.) nearly extremely fine 455 £250-300
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Wepener, Transvaal, Wittebergen (Lieut. W. Mearns, High’d. L. I.) light contact marks, very fine, ‘Wepener’ rare to unit
£450-500
W. Mearns was born on 8 July 1876. Serving as Private 3294 in the Cape Mounted Rifles he was present at the defence of Wepener and was slightly wounded in action at Jammersberg Drift, Wepener, on 13 April 1900. He was appointed to a commission in the Highland Light Infantry on 27 July 1901; was attached to the Army Service Corps in October 1902 and was promoted to Lieutenant in the A.S.C. in July 1904. Mearns served in operations in Orange Free State, April-May 1900, including the defence of Wepener; was in the Orange River Colony, May-November 1900; in action at Wittebergen, 1-29 July 1900; served in operations in Cape Colony south of the Orange River, 1899-1900; operations in Transvaal and the Orange River Colony, November 1900-April 1901; and operations in Cape Colony, April 1901-May 1902. Awarded the Queen’s medal with four clasps and the King’s medal with two. With copied roll extract and research.
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