Campaign Groups and Pairs 1048 Four: Major L. A. Cox, Cape Cyclists, late Kimberley Regiment and Kitchener’s Horse


Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-97, 1 clasp, Bechuanaland (Cpl. L. A. Cox. Kim. Reg.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, unofficial retaining rods between third, fourth, and fifth clasps, top clasp a tailor’s copy (3029 O.R. Sjt: L. A. L. Cox. Kitchener’s Horse); British War Medal 1914-20 (Major L. A. Cox.); Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal, G.V.R. (Lieut. L. A. Cox. 9th Inf. (P.W.O.R., C.P.R.)) mounted court style for wear, contact marks, nearly very fine and better (4)


£400-£500 Provenance: John Tamplin Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, March 2009.


M.I.D. London Gazette 22 August 1918. ‘... by General the Rt. Hon. Louis Botha for distinguished service in the Field and in connection with the campaign in German South-West Africa, 1914-15’. The Recommendation states: ‘A capable officer whose ability in commanding his unit was most marked.’


Leslie Arthur Cox, a Journalist by occupation, enlisted into the Volunteers at Cape Town in 1894. During 1896-97 he served in Bechuanaland. In the published medal roll he is shown as a Corporal in the Mafeking Mounted Rifles but his medal is named to him as a Corporal in the Kimberley Regiment. Next engaged in the Boer War, he served as an Orderly Room Sergeant in Kitchener’s Horse, for which he was awarded the Queen’s medal with three clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein (not entitled to the Johannesburg or Diamond Hill clasps). The medal roll also shows service as a Lance-Sergeant in the Cape Town Highlanders for which he was entitled to the same three clasps. Continuing to serve in the Active Citizen Force, in the rank of Lieutenant (Temporary Major) in the Corps of Cyclists (Cape Peninsula), Cox was awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Force Long Service Medal; this was notified in the Government Gazette of 4 February 1916. Later, the Cape Peninsula Rifles became the 9th Infantry. Serving in the Great War as a Major in the Cape Cyclists, Cox was Mentioned in Despatches for the campaign in German South West Africa 1914-15. His medal record card states ‘Not eligible for the 1914-15 Star’, was not awarded the Victory Medal, and records show that the British War Medal was despatched in 1937. As a Lieutenant in the 9th Infantry, he was appointed a Temporary Captain on 1 December 1914, a Captain on 1 February 1915, a Temporary Major on 15 March 1915, and Major on 1 July 1915. He was released on demobilization on 25 January 1919.


Sold with copied research and a portrait photograph of the recipient, wearing six medals. The recipient was not entitled to the last two clasps on the Q.S.A. Medal, neither was he entitled to the two ‘extra’ medals featured in the photograph - the British South Africa Medal with clasp, and the King’s South Africa Medal with two clasps.


1049


Four: Lieutenant H. A. Woods, British South Africa Police


British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Mashonaland 1897, no clasp (626 Sergt. H. A. Woods. B.S.A. Police.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Rhodesia (626 Serjt. H. A. Woods. B.S.A. Police.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (626 Serjt: H. A. Woods. B.S.A. Police.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut. H. A. Woods.) minor edge bruising to first, nearly extremely fine (4)


£600-£800 1050 Pair: Chief Petty Officer W. Higgin, Royal Navy


East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Benin 1897 (173208. W. Higgin, A.B. H.M.S. Theseus) with minor official corrections; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (173208 William Higgin, P.O., H.M.S. Cressy.) light contact marks, good very fine (2)


£240-£280 William Higgin served in the Royal Navy during the Great War, and was additionally entitled to the British War and Victory Medals. x1051 Pair: Company Quartermaster-Serjeant E. W. Hogbin, Royal Engineers


East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, 1898 (25999 Corpl: E. W. Hogbin. R.E.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (25999 Sjt: E. W. Hogbin. R.E.) contact marks, otherwise toned, very fine (2)


£460-£500


Ernest William Hogbin was born in Chislett, near Herne Bay, Kent. An Engine Driver by occupation and a member of the 1st Kent Artillery Volunteers, he attested for the Royal Engineers at Chatham on 22 August 1891, aged 19 years. He served overseas in Niger & Territories, January 1898-April 1899 and Hong Kong, November 1904-January 1908. Promoted to Lance-Corporal in October 1896, 2nd Corporal in March 1899; Corporal in March 1900, Sergeant in April 1907 and Company Quartermaster Sergeant in May 1911. Awarded the Army L.S. & G.C. in 1909. Discharged at Chatham on 21 August 1912 on completion of his second period of engagement. With copied service papers which confirm both medals..


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