CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 1347
Four: Lieutenant-Colonel C. A. W. Anderson, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, late North Staffordshire Regiment, killed in action, battle of Flers-Courcelette, 18 September 1916
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut., S. Staff. Rgt.(sic)); 1914-15 STAR (Capt., N. Staff. R.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Lt. Col.) first good very fine; others extremely fine (4)
£550-650
Charles Alfred Walker Anderson joined the North Staffordshire Regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant from the Militia in October 1901. With the regiment he served in South Africa, taking part in operations in the Transvaal from December 1901 until 31 May 1902. With his Militia battalion he had previously taken part in operations in Cape Colony and Orange Free State. Anderson was promoted to Lieutenant in April 1905, Captain in March 1914 and Major in May 1916. As Lieutenant-Colonel, Anderson took over command of the 1/5th Battalion King’s Own in June 1916. On 18 September 1916 the battalion moved forward to take up position in the front line for the battle of Flers-Courcelette. Just before entering Flers itself, a shell exploded on the Battalion H.Q. killing Lieutenant-Colonel Anderson. He was buried in the Guards Cemetery, Lesboeufs.
With copied research and modern photographs of cemetery and headstone. 1348 Three: Private H. McCombe, Scots Guards
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (9670 Pte., Scots Gds); KING’S SOUTH AFRICA 1901-02, 2 clasps (9670 Pte., Scots Guards); LIVERPOOL SHIPWRECK AND HUMANE SOCIETY MARINE MEDAL, 3rd type, silver (To Henry McCombe, for Gallant Service, 9/5/29) with silver brooch bar, slight edge bruising, good very fine (3)
£320-360 With copied roll extracts for the Q.S.A. & K.S.A. 1349 Four: Driver A. Barnett, Royal Field Artillery
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast, South Africa 1901 (33983 Dvr., R.F.A.); 1914 STAR (33983 Dvr., R.F.A.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (33983 Dvr., R. A.) good very fine (4)
£200-250 1350 Four: Warrant Officer Class 2 G. E. G. Matley, Army Ordnance Corps
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (827 Ar-Sjt., A.O.C.); KING’S SOUTH AFRICA 1901-02, 2 clasps (827 Armr.-Serjt., A.O.C.); BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914-20 (A-827 W.O. Cl. 2, A.O.C.); ARMY L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (827 Ar. Q.M. Sjt., A.O.C.) first two with heavy edge bruising and contact marks, fine; others good very fine (4)
£180-220 1351
Three: Private R. H. Nankervis, 12th South African Infantry, late Bugler, Imperial Light Infantry, Prince of Wales Light Horse and onetime Band Master of the Krugersdorp and Brakpan Town Bands
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 7 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901 (265 Bugr. R. H. Nankervis, Imp. Lt. Infy.); BRITISH WAR AND BILINGUAL VICTORY MEDALS (Pte. R. H. Nankervis, 12th S.A.I.), together with his Band Master’s baton, with upper, central and lower engraved silver bands, hallmarks for London 1909, the central one inscribed, ‘Presented to R. H. Nankervis by the Mayor, Richardson, 8-7 -15’, in its fitted case of issue, the first with official correction to surname and some edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine or better (4)
£400-500
Robert Henry Nankervis, who was born in Penzance, Cornwall, appears to have served for six years in the Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers) prior to moving to South Africa. He subsequently served in the Boer War as a Bugler in the Imperial Light Infantry and, from February 1901, the Prince of Wales Light Horse, gaining the above described Queen’s Medal & 7 clasps - roll signed by Major C. M. Maynard at Newcastle, Natal in July 1901 refers, with additional mention of the clasps for Cape Colony and Orange Free State being despatched at a later date.
Re-enlisting in the South African Expeditionary Force in February 1916, direct from his duties as Band Master of the Krugersdorp Town Band, he was assigned to ‘A’ Company of the 12th South African Infantry in German East Africa, where he was disembarked at Kilindini in the following month. In September, however, he was admitted to hospital at Congella, having contracted malaria at Kalossa, as a result of which he was invalided back to South Africa, where he was discharged in early 1917. Nankervis, who was latterly Band Master of the Brakpan Town Band, died in the mid-1920s.
Sold with an original scrapbook containing music sheets, newspaper cuttings, and his original certificate of discharge from the Prince of Wales Light Horse, issued at Cape Town, together with an official copy of his Great War Record of Service, issued in May 1930.
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