A Collection of Medals to Veterinary Surgeons and the Army Veterinary Corps 304
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (C.V.S. B. Runciman, A.V.D.) minor contact marks, good very fine
£240-280
Benjamin Runciman qualified as a M.R.C.V.S. (New Edinburgh) on 28 May 1900 - his father and two brothers were also Veterinary Surgeons. Runciman went to South Africa as a Civilian Veterinary Surgeon attached to the Army Veterinary Department during the Boer War and served during October 1900 to January 1902. He served as a Veterinary Officer in the South African Constabulary from January 1902 to July 1906. After his discharge he set up an equine practice in Turfontein, Johannesburg and also practiced at Epsom, England. During the Great War he served as a Captain in the S.A.V.C. from August 1914 and was promoted to Major in November 1915. He was latterly Assistant Director Veterinary Services - Eastern Force. Runciman died in Tanganyika on 27 November 1958.
With copied photograph, roll extract and service paper. Entitled to the King’s South Africa Medal; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals.
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QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Natal, Relief of Mafeking, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (860 Tpr. T. Issitt, Imp. Lt. Horse) minor edge bruise, very fine, unusual clasp combination
£350-400
Thomas Issett attested for the Imperial Light Horse on 27 March 1900, aged 23 years, having previously served in the West Kent Volunteer Artillery. He was discharged on 23 March 1901. He then enlisted with the Corps of Cattle Rangers at Johannesburg, 31 July 1901 and served with them until the Corps was disbanded in January 1902. In the published ‘Relief of Mafeking’ roll, listed under the 1st Imperial Light Horse; clasps confirmed. Also states ‘Civilian attached to the A.V.D.’ With copied roll extracts.
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NATAL 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (Capt. O. A. O’Neill, Natal Vet Corps) extremely fine 11 Natal Medals with clasps awarded to the Natal Veterinary Corps.
£250-300
Osbourne Anthony O’Neill was born on 25 September 1869 and qualified as a M.R.C.V.S. (Edinburgh) on 24 May 1893. During 1897 -1901 he served with the Southern Rhodesian Civil Veterinary Department, and during 1902-06 he was employed with the Natal Government Veterinary Department. During the latter period he served as a part-time Veterinary Officer with the Natal Veterinary Corps and in 1905 was promoted to the rank of Captain. He resigned his commission in September 1906. In December 1914 he was commissioned a Captain in the Australian Army Veterinary Corps and embarked for overseas service aboard H.M.A.T. Vestalia at Sydney on 19 December 1914. In late 1915 he served in Gallipoli. Due to malaria and debility he resigned his commission in January 1917. In 1921 he was living in Madagascar. His name was removed from the Register of Veterinary Surgeons in 1955. With a quantity of copied service papers relating to his W.W.1 service.
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NATAL 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (Capt. Chas Tyler, Natal Vet. Corps) good very fine 11 Natal Medals with clasps awarded to the Natal Veterinary Corps.
£250-300
Charles Tyler was born in Burstem, Staffordshire on 6 July 1877. He graduated as a M.R.C.V.S. (London) on 16 July 1900. Joining the Natal Civil Veterinary Department on 23 May 1902, he was stationed at Vryheid as District Veterinarian. During the Natal Rebellion he served in the Natal Veterinary Corps, being attached to Royston’s Horse. He subsequently served as District Veterinarian at Mooi River, Ladysmith and Port Shepstone. In 1930 he was transferred to the Cape where he retired from the service on 6 July 1932 and settled in Bournemouth, Dorset. In 1937 he returned to Natal and died there on 9 February 1940. With copied phtograph of recipient and some copied research.
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1914-15 STAR (S/Sjt. J. T. Burrows, S.A. Vetry C.); BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914-20 (Pte. H. Cockett, S.A.V.C.); SILVER WAR BADGE (498881) extremely fine (3)
£60-80 John Thomas Burrows served in the South African Veterinary Corps and 3rd South African Infantry. With copied service papers.
Henry Cockett was born in Hawes, Yorkshire. A Butcher by occupation, he attested for overseas service with the S.A. Overseas Expeditionary Force on 19 November 1915. He served in the South African Veterinary Corps in British East Africa. In December 1916 he received ‘10 days field punishment’ and a fine for being ‘Drunk and being in charge of a Government Horse’. Suffering from Malaria during 1917; Cockett was discharged at Durban in November 1917 as being permanently unfit for tropical service and temporarily unfit for non-tropical service. Entitled to the 1914-15 Star and Victory Medal. With copied service papers.
Acting Sergeant Harry Stephens, Royal Army Veterinary Corps. Awarded the Silver War Badge. Died 19 July 1918. With forwarding slip and envelope for the the Silver War Badge addressed to ‘Mrs H. Stephens, 47 Portman Street, Rowbarton, Taunton’. With copied m.i.c.
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VETERINARYMEDICAL ASSOCIATIONMEDAL, obverse: a snake wound around the trunk of a tree; reverse: engraved, ‘Veterinary Medical Association. Awarded to Mr William Litt for his Thesis on the Teeth of Animals. Session 1839-40. Instituted 1836’, 63mm., silver, with ornamented border, hallmarked, with loop suspension, minor scratches, very fine £60-80
William Litt of Shrewsbury qualified from the Royal Veterinary College, London on 31 March 1841. He died on 10 February 1868.
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