CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 977
Pair: Private T. Mitchell, Kimberley Town Guard
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Kimberley (Pte. T. Mitchell. Kimberley Town Gd:); MAYOR OF KIMBERLEY’S STAR 1899-1900, reverse hallmark with date letter ‘a’, reverse contemporarily engraved ‘T. Mitchell Issuer, L. Coy. T.G.’, with integral top riband bar, this contemporarily engraved ‘15. Oct- 15. Feb’, good very fine (2) £500-600
978 Pair: Private F. W. Kettle, 5th Dragon Guards
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Transvaal (3680 Pte. F. Kettle, 5th. Dragoon Guards); KING’S SOUTH AFRICA 1901-02, 2 clasps (3680 Pte. J. [sic] Kettle, 5th. Drgn: Gds:) contact marks and edge bruising, very fine (2)
£180-220
Frederick William Kettle was born in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, on 19 April 1874 and attested for the 5th Dragoon Guards at Lichfield, Staffordshire, on 9 February 1892. He served with the Regiment in India from 6 September 1893, before proceeding to South Africa, arriving there on 26 October 1899. He served in South Africa during the Boer War until March 1902, before returning with the Regiment to India, arriving there on 6 April 1902. He was again stationed in South Africa, from 15 March 1904 until 28 December 1908, before seeing out the rest of his service at home. Awarded a Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, he was discharged on 18 March 1913, after 21 years’ service, and died in Stoke-on-Trent in 1943.
979 Seven: Battery Sergeant Major J. Blowman, Royal Field Artillery, formerly Coldstream Guards
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (839 Pte J. Blowman. Cldstm: Gds:); KING’S SOUTH AFRICA 1901-02, 2 clasps (839 Pte J. Blowman. Coldstream Guards.); 1914-15 STAR (21673 B.S.Mjr. J. Blowman R.F.A.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (21673 W.O. Cl.2. J. Blowman. R.A.); DEFENCEMEDAL;MERITORIOUS SERVICEMEDAL, G.V.R., 1st issue (L-21673 B.S.Mjr: J. Blowman. R.F.A.); together with a ROYAL LIFE SAVING SOCIETY MEDAL, bronze, reverse inscribed ‘awarded to Joseph Blowman Aug. 1905’, good very fine (8) £400-500
M.S.M. London Gazette 17 June 1918.
Joseph Blowman was born in 1879 in Sutton Hull, the son of Christopher and Sarah Anne Blowman (nee Garton) of 26, Mason Street, Hull. Aged 18, a hawker, he enlisted in the Coldstream Guards in 1897. He served for over 16 years, including South Africa from 28 October to 4 October 1902, taking part in at least six major battles. He was discharged from the Army Reserve on 15 March 1913. The 1911 Census notes that Joseph was a Police Constable with Hull City Police. He re-enlisted and served with the Royal Field Artillery during the Great War on the Western Front from 30 December 1915 and was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal in June 1918 for services in France, whilst attached to the 32nd Divisional Ammunition Column. He died in Scunthorpe in 1961.
980 Pair: Lance-Corporal F. B. Starkey, 12th Royal Lancers
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast, first four clasps tailor’s copies, last with top retaining rod (3498. Pte. F. B. Starkey. 12/R. Lrs.); KING’S SOUTH AFRICA 1901-02, 2 clasps (3498 Corpl: F. B. Starkey. 12th Lancers.) good very fine (2)
£140-180
Frank Burdett Starkey was born in York in 1873 and attested there for the 12th Lancers on 28 April 1892, having previously served with the 1st (Volunteer) Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment. He transferred to the Army Reserve on 28 April 1899, but was recalled to the Colours on 9 October 1899, and served with the Regiment in South Africa during the Boer War from 22 October 1899 until 30 August 1902. Appointed Lance-Corporal on 24 April 1901, he re-transferred to the Army Reserve on 10 June 1903, and was discharged on 27 April 1894, after 12 years’ service.
Note: The recipient’s service papers list that the recipient was entitled to the clasps ‘Cape Colony’, ‘Orange Free State’ and ‘Transvaal’ only for his Q.S.A., in addition to the K.S.A.; the Medal Roll for the Queen’s South Africa Medal initially confirms this, but with the later notation that the Transvaal clasp has been disallowed ‘and recovered’, and that the recipient is instead entitled to the Belfast clasp.
981 Pair: Private C. Hunter, Yorkshire Regiment
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (3979 Pte B. [sic] Hunter, Yorkshire Regt); KING’S SOUTH AFRICA 1901-02, 2 clasps (3979 Pte C. Hunter, Yorks: Regt) edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (2)
£140-180
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