CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 861 Pair: Private J. King, 2nd Dragoons, late 4th Dragoon Guards
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (4311 Pte., 4th Dragoon Gds.); QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (4311 Pte., 2nd Dragoons) mounted as worn, very fine (2)
£220-260
Two squadrons of the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards served in 3 Brigade, Mohmand Field Force. Private J. King, 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys) was wounded at Uitval Nek, on 11 July 1900. One squadron of the 2nd Dragoons took part in the action in which a Boer force commanded by De la Rey defeated a British force 18 miles to the west of Pretoria. 80 men were killed or wounded and nearly 200 men and 2 guns captured (Ref. The Great Boer War, by Conan Doyle).
862 Four: Lieutenant-Colonel O. M. J. da Costa, 35th Scinde Horse, who died on 11 October 1918
INDIAGENERAL SERVICE 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1901-2 (Capt., 8th Mule Corps) officially re-engraved naming; 1914 -15 STAR (Major, 35-Horse); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (Lt. Col.); MEMORIAL PLAQUE (Oscar Michael John da Costa) good very fine (5)
£600-800
Oscar Michael John da Costa was born on 20 September 1868 in St. Lawrence on the Isle of Jersey, the son of John H. N. da Costa and his wife, Mary. At the time of the 1871 Census he was living with his parents, an elder brother, and four servants at 8 Windsor Crescent, St. Helier, Jersey. Oscar da Costa attended Sandhurst and was commissioned into the 21st Hussars on 30 January 1889. He was transferred as a Lieutenant to the 35th Scinde Horse on 15 April 1892. With them he served in Waziristan, 1901-02. Da Costa was promoted to Captain in January 1900, Major in January 1907 and Lieutenant-Colonel in January 1915. Lieutenant-Colonel Oscar da Costa, 35th Scinde Horse died of blood-poisoning at Jubbulpore on 11 October 1918. His name is commemorated on the Kirkee 1914 -1918 Memorial. His estate, valued at £324.15.2, was left to his wife, Mrs Coline Helen Phoebe da Costa. His elder brother, John da Costa, was an accomplished portrait painter who died in 1931. With copied research.
863 Three: Private W. Greensall, Somerset Light Infantry
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (3057 Pte., 1st Bn. Som. Lt. Infy.) initial re-engraved; QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (3057 Pte., Somerset Lt. Infy.) four letters of surname corrected; KING’S SOUTH AFRICA 1901-02, 2 clasps (3057 Pte., Somerset L.I.); together with two sports medals, 34mm., silver, one inscribed, ‘Murree Brewery Football Cup, Runners up, 1897’; the other, ‘Murree Brewery Football Cup, Winner, 1898’, the first of these with slack suspension, good very fine and better (5)
£340-380 864
Three: Captain E. G. Verschoyle, Grenadier Guards, who died of wounds received at Thaba N’chu in May 1900
QUEEN’S SUDAN 1896-98 (Captain E. G. Verschoyle, 1/Gren Gds.); QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Capt. E. G. Verschoyle, Gren: Gds.); KHEDIVE‘S SUDAN 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum Capt. E. G. Verschoyle 1 Bt. Grenadier Guards) extremely fine (3)
£2000-2500
Edward Greville Verschoyle died of wounds received in action at Thaba N’chu on May 5th, 1900. He was the son of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Verschoyle, Grenadier Guards, of Killbery, co. Kildare, by his marriage with Lucy Clarissa, third daughter of Ambrose Goddard, Esq., of the Lawn, Swindon. He was born in November 1866, and educated at Wellington, where he was in Kempthorne’s House, 1880-84. He entered the Grenadier Guards from the Royal Military College in May 1855, being promoted Captain in October 1897. He served in the Nile Expedition of 1898, and took part in the battle of Khartoum, receiving the medal and Egyptian medal and clasp. Captain Verschoyle accompanied his battalion to South Africa in March 1900, and served in the Cape and Orange River Colonies up to the time of his death. He died suddenly of his wounds, in hospital, on the morning of May 6th. On the following day, ‘wrapped only in a blanket, as a soldier should be, he was buried in Thaba N’chu cemetery, and a wooden cross was soon after put up over his grave until the wishes of his family could be known’.
See Lot 847 for the Crimean War group awarded to his father. 865 Pair: Private E. O’Brien, Grenadier Guards
QUEEN’S SUDAN 1896-98 (5812 Pte. E. O’Brien, 1/Gren: Gds:); KHEDIVE’S SUDAN 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum (Pte. E. O’Brien, Gren. Gds.) edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine (2)
£280-320
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