A Collection of Medals relating to the Boer War formed by two brothers 218
The Great War K.C.I.E., Boer War C.B. group of ten awarded to Major-General Sir Herbert Raitt, who commanded the 1s Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment in the Boer War
THEMOST EMINENTORDER OF THE INDIAN EMPIRE, K.C.I.E., Knight Commander’s set of insignia, comprising sash badge, gold and enamel, and breast star, silver, with gold and enamel centre, in its Garrard & Co. case of issue; THE MOST HONOURABLE ORDER OF THE BATH, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, with later swivel-ring suspension and riband buckle; SOUTH AFRICA 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1878-9 (Lieut. H. A. Raitt, 80th Foot); QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Wittebergen, Transvaal (Lt. Colonel H. A. Raitt, C.B., S. Staff. R.); KING’S SOUTH AFRICA 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lt. Col. H. A. Raitt, C.B., S. Staff. Rgt.); 1914-15 STAR (Maj. Gen. H. A. Raitt, C.B.); BRITISHWAR ANDVICTORYMEDALS (Maj. Gen. H. A. Raitt); CORONATION 1911, privately inscribed, ‘Brig.-General H. A. Raitt, C.B.’, contact marks but otherwise very fine and better (10)
£4000-5000
K.C.I.E. London Gazette 12 September 1919. C.B. London Gazette 27 September 1901.
Herbert Aveling Raitt, who was born in August 1858, was commissioned in the 80th Foot in March 1878, direct from the 1st Durham Militia, and quickly witnessed active service out in South Africa in operations against the Sekukini, and afterwards in the Zulu War, when he was present at the storming and capture of that tribe’s stronghold (Medal & clasp).
Adjutant of the 2nd Battalion from February 1881 until June 1884, Raitt next served in Sir Charles Warren’s peaceful expedition into Bechuanaland, in the rank of Captain, and with command of a troop of the Diamond Field’s Horse. Attachment to the Egyptian Army under Lord Kitchener having followed, he was advanced to Major in February 1896, in which rank he was serving at the time of the outbreak of hostilities in South Africa, although he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and given command of the 1st Battalion in December 1900. Having earlier participated in operations in the Orange Free State and Orange River Colony from April-November 1900, including the action at Wittebergen, as Battalion C.O. Raitt remained actively employed in the same theatre of war until May 1902, gaining a “mention” (London Gazette 10 September 1901 refers), and the C.B.
Advanced to Colonel in February 1904, Raitt commanded the South Midland Division 1908-11 and, on promotion to Major-General in September 1912, was posted to India as the G.O.C. of the Mandalay Brigade from 1913-14.
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