A Collection of Medals relating to the Boer War formed by two brothers 226
A Boer War C.B. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel F. A. B. Daly, Royal Army Medical Corps, Medical Officer to the Royal Irish Fusiliers at Talana who afterwards tended the British sick and wounded prisoners-of-war at Dundee
THE MOST HONOURABLE ORDER OF THE BATH, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with replacement silver-gilt straight bar suspension and buckle on ribbon, some enamel damage to wreaths; EGYPT AND SUDAN 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (Surgeon, A.M. Dept.); QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Talana, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (Lt. Col., C.B., R.A.M.C.), rank re-engraved; KING’S SOUTH AFRICA 1901-02, 2 clasps (Lt. Col., M.B., C.B., R.A.M.C.); KHEDIVE’S STAR 1882, rev. engraved, ‘Surgn. F. A. B. Daly, A.M. D., 1882’, Egypt and K.S.A. with some pitting, very fine and better (5)
£700-800 Ex Col. Riddick Collection, D.N.W. 6 December 2006 - when sold with a gold C.B.
Francis Augustus Bonner Daly was born in Dublin on 28 May 1855. Educated at Trinity College Dublin, he gained a B.A., M.B. and B. Ch. and was appointed a F.R.C.S.I. in 1887. Appointed a Surgeon, afterwards a Surgeon-Captain, in the Army Medical Department in 1881, he served in the Egypt campaign of 1882 and also served with the Sudan Frontier Force, 1885-86. He was promoted to Surgeon- Major in 1893. He served in the South African War of 1899-1902, and took part in the relief of Ladysmith. Daly served as Regimental Medical Officer to the Royal Irish Fusiliers at Talana and was ordered by the S.M.O. to remain at Dundee with the wounded who were unable to travel, thus becoming a prisoner-of-war of Boers. He was released in January 1900. In February 1901 he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and appointed the Principal Medical Officer of a Field Hospital with the local rank of Colonel. For his wartime services he was twice mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 30 March 1900, 4 February 1901) and awarded the C.B. (1901). He was placed on Retired Pay in 1909. Lieutenant-Colonel Daly died on 8 May 1946.
Sold with copied research including a photocopy of the title page of the booklet Boer War Memories, Personal Experiences by Lieutenant-Colonel F. A. B. Daly, C.B. The original booklet (not with lot) detailed his experiences as the medical officer, tending the British and Boer wounded at Dundee.
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An unusual Boer War C.B. pair awarded to Honorary Major-General T. J. P. Evans, Royal Marine Light Infantry, who was decorated for his services as O.C. Troops and Commandant
P.O.Ws on St. Helena, where he also acted as Governor for several months in 1901
THE MOST HONOURABLE ORDER OF THE BATH, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with later swivel-ring suspension and riband buckle; QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (Lt. Colonel T. J. P. Evans, R.M.L.I.), good very fine (2)
£1800-2200 C.B. London Gazette 26 June 1903.
Thomas Julian Penrhys Evans was born in the Bombay Presidency in December 1854, the son of an Indian Army officer, and was originally commissioned in the Royal West Kents in April 1871, but later attended the R.N.C. Greenwich and transferred to the Royal Marine Light Infantry as a Lieutenant in July 1874. Serving variously in the Chatham and Plymouth Divisions and, from time to time, at sea, he gained steady advancement, attaining the rank of Major in January 1891 and being given the Brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel in January 1898.
As per his service record, Evans served in the Boer War ‘on Special Army Service’ from February 1900, when he was graded as Assistant Adjutant-General and acted as Commandant of
P.O.Ws at Simonstown in South Africa, and afterwards as O.C. Troops and Commandant
P.O.Ws on St. Helena, including a stint of service as Acting Governor of the latter place in April-August 1901. An excellent account of the P.O.W. camps in Simonstown and St. Helena appears in Bryon Farwell’s Prisoners of War from The Great Boer War:
‘At first they had been kept on board transports converted into prison ships and anchored in Simon’s Bay, where their health suffered from the close confinement. But the British soon abandoned the prison ships, concluding that the practise was an ‘expensive, unsatisfactory and troublesome experiment’. Conditions were much improved when the prisoners were moved ashore to the sports ground at Green Point (now a suburb of Cape Town) or to the camp established at Simonstown - although an outbreak of enteric fever there took an number of inmates’ lives including the charming and attractive Mary Kingsley, traveller and ethnologist, who had gone to South Africa to nurse Boer prisoners.
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