A Collection of Medals relating to the Boer War formed by two brothers 40
QUEEN’S SOUTHAFRICA 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (38951 Tpr. J. H. S. Hickman, Candn. Scts.) nearly extremely fine £120-160
James Henry Sylvester Hickman, a Book Keeper, attested for the Canadian Scouts on 8 January 1902, aged 25 years and was discharged on 13 May 1902. With copied service papers and roll extracts - showing entitlement to the clasps for Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal and South Africa 1902.
41 QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (Capt. P. B. Bryant, C.C.C.C.) extremely fine £160-220
Captain P. B. Bryant, Cape Colony Cyclist Corps, was awarded the Queen’s medal with one clasp and the King’s medal with two. With copied roll extracts, verification and other research.
42 43 44 45 QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (439 Serjt. W. Watson, 1st City Vols.) nearly extremely fine £60-80 QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (Lieut. R. T. Cresswell, Midland M.R.) extremely fine £160-200
Orange River Colony Volunteers. QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (33 Serjt. S. J. Draper, O.R.C. Vols.) officially re-impressed,
nearly extremely fine £50-70
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (Capt. S. Hancock, Rly. Pnr. Rgt.) extremely fine
£250-300
George Strangman Hancock was born in England, c. 1865, the youngest son of Thomas Strangman Hancock. A Mining Engineer by occupation, he had been educated in England and France. He travelled around during the early part of his career, gaining experience in Wales and Spain as well as in the United States of America where he spent three-and-a half years in California, Colorado and the Southern States. His last American appointment was as mining superintendent of the Appalachian Company in North Carolina from which he resigned in 1888.
Hancock, who had previously spent two years prospecting for gold north of the Limpopo and in the Zoutpansberg, Lydenberg and Barberton districts, returned to South Africa in 1888. His first appointment in the country was as manager of the Balkis Consolidated Company's Eersteling mine near Smitsdorp in the Zoutpansberg district of the Transvaal. By January 1889, however, he had moved to the Witwatersrand where he was managing the Black Reef Gold Mining Company Ltd. as well as the Oosthuizen Gold Mining Company Ltd. He subsequently also accepted responsibility for the Cornucopia Gold Mining Company Ltd. and the New Spes Bona Gold Mining Company Ltd. of which he became the general manager in 1892. Hancock spent nine months during 1893 and 1894 in Mashonaland, Manica and Matabeleland inspecting and reporting on mining property, including that of the Churchill Syndicate-Transvaal and Mashonaland Investment Company, Ltd. After his return to Johannesburg in 1894, he was appointed Manager of the Jumpers Deep Ltd. Jumpers Deep, Limited was one of the early deep level mines to be developed by Rand Mines, Limited.
Jumpers Deep, Limited was registered in October 1894 and
development work commenced at the beginning of 1895. At the end of that year, H.C. Perkins, general manager of Rand Mines, commended Hancock to the Board of Directors:
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