Campaign Groups and Pairs 819 Pair: Driver H. Palmer, Royal Horse Artillery
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (87195 Dr: H. Palmer, P.B. R.H.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (87195 Dvr: H. Palmer. R.H.A.) contact marks, nearly very fine (2)
£180-£220
820
Four: Driver E. Vine, Royal Horse Artillery, later Army Service Corps
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein (12702 Dvr: E. Vine, T Bty: R. H.A.); 1914 Star, with later slide clasp (MS-3318 Pte. E. Vine. A.S.C.); British War Medal 1914-20, naming erased; Victory Medal 1914-19 (MS-3318 Pte. E. Vine. A.S.C.) naming on last officially re-impressed, edge bruising, nearly very fine (4)
£180-£220
Ernest Vine was bon in Fulham, London, in 1879 and attested for the Royal Horse Artillery. He served with ‘T’ Battery in South Africa during the Boer War, and was invalided home on 21 June 1900. Following the outbreak of the Great War he attested for the Army Service Corps on 7 August 1914, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 5 October 1914, being invalided back to the U.K. suffering from influenza in December 1918. He transferred to Class ‘Z’ Army Reserve on 11 March 1919.
Sold with copied service papers, medal roll extracts, and Medal Index Card, which confirms the clasp to the 1914 Star.
821
Three: Sergeant J. H. Watson, Royal Field Artillery, who served with the 14th Battery during the Boer War, and was present at the saving of the guns at Colenso, 15 December 1899
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Ladysmith (14260 Dvr. J. H. Watson, 14th. Bty., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (14260 Sjt. J. H. Watson. R.A.) light edge bruising and contact marks, good very fine (3) £240-£280
Henry Watson was born in Norwich in 1878 and attested for the Royal Artillery on 26 February 1896, having previously served in the Norfolk Artillery Militia. Posted to 14th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, he served in South Africa during the Boer War from 23 October 1899 to 27 September 1900. He was present during the action at Colenso on 15 December 1899, on which occasion 14th and 66th Batteries were galloped too close to the Boers and in advance of the infantry by Colonel Long, the ‘damned gunner’ that Buller subsequently blamed for his defeat. In the face of withering fire from the Boers across the river, officers and men fought their guns to the last, numerous acts of gallantry being enacted until most had been killed or wounded - and their seven guns stood abandoned on the veldt. Buller asked for volunteers to save the guns and in the ensuing acts of heroism, six Victoria Crosses were won, including that by Lieutenant the Hon. F. H. S. Roberts, the son of Field-Marshal the Lord Roberts of Kandahar. The 14th Battery itself suffered seven other ranks killed, one officer and 13 other ranks wounded, and 27 other ranks taken prisoner. A small number of gunners and drivers were left isolated in a small donga, and it is possible that Watson was one of this number.
Watson subsequently served in India from 5 April 1910 to 16 October 1918, where he was promoted Corporal on 25 July 1909, and Sergeant on 26 April 1915. Posted to ‘D’ Force on 8 October 1918, he served during the Great War in Mesopotamia from 24 October 1918. He was finally discharged on 15 March 1920, after 24 years and 19 days’ service.
Sold with copied service papers, medal roll extracts, and other research.
822
Five: Gunner P. Grove, Royal Artillery
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith (97622 Gnr: P. Grove, 4th. M.B., R.G.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (97622 Gnr: P. Grove. R.G.A.); 1914 Star (97622 Gnr: P. Grove. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (97622 Gnr. P. Grove. R.A.) about extremely fine (5)
£240-£280
Percy Grove was born in 1873 and attested for the Royal Garrison Artillery on 6 June 1893. He served with No. 4 Mountain Battery in South Africa during the Boer War, and was present at the Relief of Ladysmith. He subsequently served with No. 235 Battery, 32nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery during the Great War on the Western Front from 23 August 1914, before being discharged from No. 22 Reserve Battery on 15 August 1915, on the termination of his period of engagement, and received a Silver War Badge.
Sold with copied medal roll extracts and Medal Index Card.
823
Three: Gunner C. Chapman, Royal Garrison Artillery
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (75352 Gnr: C. Chapman, 15th W.D., R.G.A.) top left-hand lug repaired; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (75352 Gnr: C. Chapman. R.G.A.); China 1900, no clasp (75352 Gnr: C. Chapman. R.G.A.) contact marks overall, generally good fine or better, scarce combination of awards (3)
£500-£600 Provenance: B. J. Carr Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2007.
Just 35 men of the British Army received the Queen’s South Africa, China 1900 and King’s South Africa Medals, all of them members of the Royal Garrison Artillery; see the article A Slow Boat to China - and Back Again, and related roll, by Lt. Col. A. M. Macfarlane (O.M. R.S. Journal, Autumn 1993, pp. 198-200).
Charles Chapman was born in Pulborough, Sussex in December 1865 and attested for the Royal Artillery at Worthing in October 1889. Having then served at assorted U.K. stations in the intervening period, he was transferred to the Army Reserve in October 1896, but with the advent of hostilities in South Africa he was recalled and posted to 15th (Siege Train) Company, R.G.A., in which unit he served from November 1899 until April 1901, including a period of employment in the China operations in the right half of his Company from July 1900 to March 1901. He was then posted to 14th Company and thence to No. 68 Company, with whom he qualified for the King’s South Africa Medal and two clasps, prior to being discharged back home in August 1902; a 1914-15 Trio is known to the same recipient, who died in January 1945.
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