A Collection of Boer War Medals to the Royal Artillery 251
ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Mafeking, Orange Free State, Transvaal (58438 Gnr: T. Wilson, M. Bty. R.H.A.) edge bruising, otherwise good very fine and rare
£450-550
Two sections of “M” Battery served with the Flying Column at the Relief of Mafeking. Sold with copy medal roll entry.
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Saunders, P Bty: R.H.A.) some edge bruising, good very fine
With copied roll extract. QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (58570 Dvr: F.
£150-200
Pair: Gunner W. H. Watkins, ‘Q’ Battery Royal Horse Artillery QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (33655 Gnr. W. H. Watkins, Q.B., R.H.A.); KING’S SOUTH AFRICA 1901-02, 2 clasps (33655 Gnr. W. H. Watkiss, R.H.A.) note variation in surname, some contact marks, about very fine (2)
£800-900
Resulting from De Wet’s ambush of General Broadwood’s Brigade at Korn Spruit (Sannah’s Post), “Q” Battery Royal Horse Artillery behaved with great gallantry and managed to save four of its guns from an apparently hopeless situation. The conduct of the battery was praised by Brigadier-General Broadwood in his report on the action. As a result of this report, Lord Roberts took the unusual step of ordering the battery to ballot for the Victoria Cross, to choose one officer, one non commissioned officer, one gunner and one driver to receive the coveted award, there being no other fair way to choose four from so many who performed so heroically on that day. As a result, Major Edmund John Phipps- Hornby, Sergeant Charles Edward Haydon Parker, Gunner Isaac Lodge, and Driver Horace Henry Glasock were each awarded the Victoria Cross. Gunner W. H. Watkin’s name would have been in the ballot for the Victoria Cross to the ‘Gunner’. With copied roll extracts.
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QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (9783 Gnr. P. R. Olverson, R Bty. R.H.A.) edge bruise to reverse, slight scratch to Queen’s cheek, good very fine
£100-140
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (26784 Dvr. A. Hartland, T Bty. R.H.A.) slight edge bruise, very fine
£160-200
Pair: Serjeant A. E. Frith, ‘U’ Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, wounded at Abraham’s Kraal, 10 March 1900
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein (2138 Bomb., U Bty., R.H.A.); ARMY L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (2138 Sjt., R.H.A.) first with minor edge bruising and contact marks, very fine and better (2)
£200-250
Bombardier A. E. Frith, ‘U’ Battery, R.H.A. was wounded at Abraham’s Kraal on 10 March 1900.
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