CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 185
Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel H. B. G. Walton, Royal Army Medical Corps, who was commended for his gallantry whilst on attachment with the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons during the Second Boer War
EAST ANDWEST AFRICA 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Sierra Leone 1898-99 (Lieut: H. B. Walton, R.A.M.C.) officially renamed; BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914-20 (Lt. Col. H. B. G. [sic] Walton.) suspension claw crudely re-affixed on last, and loose, nearly very fine (2)
£260-300 Provenance: Glendinings, March 1975.
Henry Beckles Gall Walton was born in Barbados, in January 1873. He was the son of Dr George O’Donnell Walton of St. George’s, Barbados, and was educated at Harrison’s College. He travelled to England, and studied at St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, 1892-1897. Walton was commissioned Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps in July 1898. He served with the R.A.M.C. in West Africa, 1898-99, and contracted enteric fever when proceeding up country from Freetown. According to family tradition, ‘owing to tse-tse, there were no horses or cows in Sierra Leone. During his convalescence, he wondered where the milk came from, which was his main diet. One day he opened the tent flap, and saw an African woman filling his mug with her milk. Without it, he would have certainly died.’
Walton served as Medical Officer to the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons Guards during the Second Boer War (entitled to Q.S.A. with 5 clasps and K.S.A. with clasps) and is mentioned several times in With The Inniskilling Dragoons, The Record of a Cavalry Regiment During the Boer War 1899-1902 by Lieutenant-Colonel J. Watkins Yardley. Including during the fighting at Zand River, 9 May 1900, when ‘Lieut. Walton, R.A.M.C., showed conspicuous bravery, attending to the wounded under heavy fire.’
Walton advanced to Captain in July 1901, and served in the West Indies, 1902-1905. He returned to the UK (obtained a Diploma in Public Health in 1906), and was posted as the Medical Officer for the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry depot at Pontefract in 1907. He advanced to Major in April 1910, and served in India 1910-15. He was mobilised with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel at the end of 1915, and commanded 119 Field Ambulance near Valenciennes, January-April 1916. Walton served in the Egyptian theatre of war, April-May 1916, prior to seeing out the remainder of the war in India (entitled to BWM and VM).
After the war Walton served as Assistant Director of Medical Services to the British Army of Occupation, Upper Silesian Force HQ, 1920-22. He served as Assistant Director of Pathology, Eastern Command, prior to his retirement. He was a GP in Suffolk until his death in June 1945.
186 Pair: Lieutenant B. St. J. Krige, Field Intelligence Department
QUEEN’S SOUTHAFRICA 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut. B. St. J. Krige. F.I. D.); KING’S SOUTH AFRICA 1901-02, 2 clasps (Lieut: B. St. J. Krige. F.I.D.) ‘t’ of name over-struck on last, very fine (2)
£400-500 Provenance: Spink, October 1999. 187 Pair: Private M. Turner, York and Lancaster Regiment
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (4351 Pte. M. Turner, 1st Yk: & Lanc: Regt.) double-struck in places; KING’S SOUTH AFRICA 1901-02, 2 clasps (4351 Pte. M. Turner,. York: & Lanc: Regt.) good very fine (2)
£180-220 188 Six: Corporal E. Pease, King’s Own Scottish Borderers
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Johannesburg (6643 Pte. E. Pease. K.O. Scot: Bord:); KING’S SOUTHAFRICA 1901-02, 2 clasps (6342 Pte. E. Pease. K.O. Scot: Bord:); 1914 STAR, with later slide clasp (6432 Pte. E. Pease. K.O. Sco: Bord.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (6432 Cpl. E. Pease. K.O. Sco. Bord.); ARMY L.S. & G.C., G. V.R., 1st issue (6432 Pte. E. Pease. K.O. Sco. Bord.) edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (6)
£240-280 189 Four: Private C. Thompson, Lincolnshire Regiment, late Imperial Yeomanry
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (32469 Tpr: C. Thompson. 11th Coy. Imp: Yeo:); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (47732 Pte. C. Thompson. Linc. R.); YORKSHIRE IMPERIAL YEOMANRY MEDAL 1900-1902, 3rd Battalion, South Africa 1901-1902 (32469 Pte. C. Thompson.) minor edge bruising and contact marks, very fine (4)
£300-400
C. Thompson served with the 11th (Yorkshire Dragoons) Company, 3rd Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Boer War.
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Five: Private W. McKean, Seaforth Highlanders, late Scottish Rifles, who was wounded on the Western Front on 26 September 1914
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, the Transvaal clasp a tailor’s copy unofficially attached with pin retaining rods (2584 Corpl. W. McKean, Scot. Rifles); 1914 STAR, with slide clasp (7612 Pte. W. McKean, 2/Sea. Highrs.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (7612 Pte. W. McKean, Seaforth); WARMEDAL 1939-45, mounted as worn, the first with contact marks and polished, therefore fine, the remainder nearly very fine (5)
£280-320
William McKean was born in Barony, Glasgow, and enlisted in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Scottish Rifles, in September 1899, aged 17 years. He subsequently saw active service in South Africa 1901-02 and, in the latter year, transferred to the Regular Army with an appointment in the Seaforth Highlanders.
Similarly employed by the outbreak of hostilities, he arrived in France with the 2nd Battalion on 22 August 1914, and was wounded in the leg on 26 September, on which date the Battalion was positioned near La Montagne Farm, north of Bucy-le-Long. He was not evacuated home, however, and remained actively employed on the Western Front until August 1916, so was presumably present in the Battalion’s attack on Redan Ridge on the First Day of the Somme, when one of his comrades, Drummer W. Ritchie, won the V.C.
McKean remained employed on the home establishment from September 1916 and was placed on the Army Reserve in May 1918, having latterly served in the Royal Scots Fusiliers.
Sold together with copied attestation and service papers, together with medal roll extracts - the former confirming his wound in September 1914.
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