CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 946 Pair: Colour Sergeant G. Hartnett, Essex Regiment


INDIAGENERAL SERVICE 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (911 Sergt. G. Hartnett. 2d. Bn. Essex Regt.); QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (911 Clr: Serjt: G. Hartnett. Essex Regt.) heavy contact marks, edge bruising to first, nearly very fine (2)


£400-500


George Hartnett was born at Nusserabad, India on 9 October 1866, the son of Harriet Jane Mecham, the schoolmistress of the 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment. He attested for the Essex Regiment on 28 March 1883, and was posted to the 1st Battalion. Promoted Corporal on 6 August 1885, and Sergeant on 24 November 1886, he was awarded a Certificate as Sergeant Instructor of Musketry at Hythe on 13 December 1889, before transferring to the 2nd Battalion for service in India on 8 December 1896. He served in India with No. 11 British Field Hospital on the Lines of communication, Tirah Expeditionary Force, 1897-98, and was promoted Colour Sergeant on 1 March 1899. He subsequently served with the Battalion in South Africa, and following the end of the Boer War was placed in arrest on 19 September 1902 for absenting himself without leave. Tried by District Court Martial, he was reduced to Sergeant, before being discharged on 29 May 1904.


Following the outbreak of the Great War, Hartnett re-enlisted on 20 September 1914 and was promoted Acting Sergeant on the same day. Posted to the 11th Battalion he was appointed Acting Company Sergeant Major on 25 September 1914. Placed in arrest on 22 May 1915 for being absent, he was tried by District Court Martial and reduced to Corporal on 1 June 1915. Posted to the 3rd Battalion, he was appointed Acting Company Quarter Master Sergeant a week later on 7 June 1915, reverting to Corporal on 18 September 1915. Tried again by District Court Martial for ‘knowingly being privy to a fraudulent entry in a book the content of which it was his duty to ascertain the accuracy’, he was sentenced to 112 days detention and reduced to Private on 23 October 1915. The following year he was again tried by District Court Martial for forgery, and was again sentenced to detention on 1 August 1916. He was released from detention on 21 December 1916, and spent the final year of the War at an Army Service Corps Depot. He was discharged to Class ‘Z’ reserve on 25 February 1919, having spent the entire Great War at home.


Note: Only 33 India General Service Medals were awarded to the Essex Regiment. 947 Pair: Sergeant T. Wilson, Essex Regiment


INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (3648 Corpl. J. Wilson 2d. Essex Regt.); QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3648 Serjt: T. Wilson. Essex Regt.) heavy contact marks, nearly very fine and a unique clasp combination to the Regiment (2)


£400-500


Thomas Wilson was born at Mile End, London, in 1870 and attested for the Essex Regiment on 20 October 1892. Posted initially to the 1st Battalion, he transferred to the 2nd Battalion on 27 November 1893, and served with them in India from 1893-1901. Promoted Corporal on 11 November 1897, he served on attachment to the Commissariat Transport Department during the Tirah Expedition, 1897 -98, before being seconded to the Indian Unattached List on 11 February 1898.


Wilson subsequently served with the 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment in South Africa during the Boer War from 7 December 1901 until 16 October 1902, and was promoted Sergeant on departing South Africa. He subsequently served on the Permanent Staff of the 3rd Battalion from 3 December 1905, reverting to the 2nd Battalion on 27 May 1909, and was discharged on 23 February 1911. Although his service is recorded as ‘exemplary’, he did not receive a Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.


Note: Only 33 India General Service Medals were awarded to the Essex Regiment. Approximately 34 men of 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment received the Queen’s South Africa Medal with just the two date clasps. The regiment landed in Durban on 23 December 1901, and it is probable therefore that these men (a large number of whom were invalided home, and presumably arrived in South Africa unwell) did not proceed to the front and stayed in Durban.


The combination of an I.G.S. and a ‘date clasps only’ Q.S.A. is unique to the Regiment. 948 Pair: Private F. C. Smith, Royal Dublin Fusiliers


QUEEN'S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Talana, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (5270 Pte. F. Smith, Rl. Dublin Fus:); KING'S SOUTH AFRICA 1901-02, 2 clasps (5270 Pte. F. C. Smith. Rl. Dublin Fus.) contact marks, nearly very fine


£500-600


Frederick Charles Smith was born in Cork in 1879, and attested for the Royal Dublin Fusiliers on 3 October 1894. He served with the Regiment in South Africa from 8 May 1897 to 11 February 1902, and was discharged on 2 October 1906, after 12 years’ service.


949 Pair: Private J. Knowles, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment


QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Defence of Kimberley, Transvaal (4858 Pte. J. Knowles. 1st. Loyal North Lancs. Regt.); KING’S SOUTH AFRICA 1901-02, 2 clasps (4858 Pte. J. Knowles. 1st. Loyal North Lancs. Regt.) both medals with re-engraved naming, good very fine (2)


£60-80


James Knowles was born in Birmingham and attested for the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment at London on 19 July 1895. He served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War from 11 February 1899 until 17 September 1902, and transferred to the Army Reserve on 7 October of that year. He was discharged on 18 July 1907, after 12 years’ service, before attesting for a further four years in the Army Reserve on 8 July 1907, finally being discharged on 7 July 1911.


950 Pair: Private J. Murray, Dorset Regiment, later Corporal, South African Constabulary


QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 7 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek, South Africa 1901 (1338. Pte. J. Murray. 2/Dorset. Rgt.); KING’S SOUTH AFRICA 1901-02, 1 clasp, South Africa 1902 (1338 Pte. J. Murray. Dorset: Regt.) clasps distributed thus across medals, as issued, very fine (2)


£200-240


James Murray was born on 22 September 1867 and served with the 2nd Battalion Dorset Regiment in South Africa from 15 December 1899, before transferring to the South African Constabulary on 3 May 1902 and being advanced to Corporal.


Note: The Medal Roll for the recipient’s King’s South Africa Medal, dated Colchester, 8 November 1904, states: ‘Name: 1338 Private Murray, J. Clasps: South Africa 1901, -; South Africa 1902, 1. Remarks: Clasp for 1901 already received.’ It would therefore appear that his South Africa 1901 clasp was issued with his Queen’s South Africa Medal, and was not re-issued when his King’s South Africa Medal was issued in November 1904.


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