SINGLE CAMPAIGN MEDALS x1100
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Wepener, Transvaal, Wittebergen (786 Pte. D. M. Evans. Kaffrn: Rifles) good very fine
£300-360
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QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Wepener, Transvaal, Wittebergen (576 Pte. W. Hunt. Kaffrn: Rifles.) polished, very fine
£300-400 W. Hunt also served as 289 Trooper in the Midland Mounted Rifles.
1102
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, date clasps both tailor’s copies (Major F. C. K. Hunter. S.W. Bord:) officially re-engraved naming, nearly extremely fine £120-160
Frederick Charles King Hunter was born on 27 July 1858 and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 24th Foot on 2 July 1879, having previously served in the Militia. He was promoted Lieutenant on 4 December 1880, and Captain on 14 June 1886, and served as Adjutant of the Volunteers from 1 November 1892 to 4 April 1897. His next appointment was as Recruiting Staff Officer, Leeds Recruiting District, from 5 April 1897 to 4 April 1900, during which he was promoted Major on 25 July 1898. He served with the South Wales Borderers in South Africa during the Boer War, and was present in operations in the Cape Colony and the Transvaal from May 1901 to 31 May 1902 (entitled to the Queen’s South Africa Medal with the above four clasps). He was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel on 9 June 1905, and received the Brevet of Colonel on 9 June 1908. He transferred to the half pay list on 9 June 1909, and retired on 23 March 1910.
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QUEEN’S SOUTHAFRICA 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen, clasp block loose on riband (5983 Sapr. W. E. Durrance. R.E.) toned, extremely fine
£180-220
William Elkington Durance served with the 26th Company Royal Engineers in South Africa during the Boer War, and was briefly taken Prisoner of War near Rustenburg. An account written by the recipient gives the story: ‘On the 25 September 1900 I was ordered with five more Sappers and one Corporal to go with Lieutenant Jackson, to repair telegraph wires so as to get communication from Rustenburg to Pretoria. We had repaired a break about 10 miles from Rustenburg and had found another break about 2 miles further on which was situated among a lot of trees. We were repairing this break when we were fired on and Sapper Sheply was wounded who was about 200 yards in front scouting. We had the order to return the fire which we did firing several rounds while in the meantime we had two horses wounded. We then had the order to get mounted and try to save the instruments. We retired about two miles into the open at the gallop during which we had two horses killed and two more wounded; the Boers had by this time circled round us and we were obliged to surrendered. The Boers who were about 60 strong then told us we were to go with them. We then came across Sheply and seeing he was badly wounded we refused to go any further with them unless they took him with them. They then, after much talking, told us we could go if we went back to Rustenburg, and then left us taking with them five horses and all the saddlery and our carbines, water-bottles, haversacks and spurs. We then carried Sheply about two miles to a store which was situated beside the road. We stopped there all night when 3 men started off at day-break to Rustenburg to get a doctor.
They fortunately met a foraging party about 5 miles from Rustenburg which had a doctor with them. They reported the case to him and he came to the store and dressed Sheply’s wounds; in the meantime he heilographed for an ambulance from Rustenburg. I then started for Rustenburg getting there at about 2:00 p.m.’
Durance subsequently died of dysentery at Pretoria on 29 November 1900.
Sold together with an original letter from the recipient to his parents, dated 2 November 1900, and the original copy of his account of being taken Prisoner of War, both with typed transcripts; a large original photographic portrait of the recipient; and a cabinet photograph of Lord Roberts.
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