Campaign Groups and Pairs 134
Seven: Chief Stoker Charles Bayford, Royal Navy, late Sergeant, East Yorkshire Regiment
East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Niger 1897 (3187 Sergt. C. Bayford. E: York R.); Royal Niger Company Medal 1886-97, 1 clasp, Nigeria 1886-1897 (Sergeant C. Bayford East Yorkshire Regiment); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901 (3187 Sgt. C. Bayford, 2nd E. Yorkshire Regt.); 1914-15 Star (308108, C. Bayford, S.P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (308108 C. Bayford. Ch. Sto. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (308108 C. Bayford, Ch. Sto. H.M.S. Comus.) the first three cleaned and with edge bruising and contact marks, therefore good fine, otherwise good very fine (7)
£2,000-£2,600
Provenance: Elson Collection, Glendining’s, February 1963 (first three), and afterwards in the collection of Jane Kenworthy, Maine, U. S.A.; purchased from The Armoury of St James’s, September 1992. The World War I and L.S. & G.C. medals purchased with all original documents at Glendining’s, September 1990.
Brought to the notice of the Lieut-General, by their Commanding Officers in Special Divisional Order, dated Harrismith, 19 November 1900, for ‘Good Service during the Campaign’:- No. 3187 Sergeant C. Bayford, 2nd East Yorkshire Regiment.
The Royal Niger Company medal was awarded in silver to 36 British officers and N.C.O’s., 46 Royal Niger Company officers, and 10 Royal Niger Constabulary.
Charles Bayford was born at Whitby, Yorkshire, on 12 January 1873, and attested at Beverley on 4 June 1891, for the East Yorkshire Regiment. He was appointed Lance-Corporal in August 1892, and promoted to Corporal in February 1893, and to Sergeant in February 1896. He served overseas in the Niger Territories from 21 November to 20 December 1896, and in South Africa from 14 March 1900 to 15 June 1901. He reverted to Private on 4 April 1902, and was discharged at Beverley on 3 June 1903.
Bayford joined the Royal Navy on 1 November 1904, as a Stoker 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Acheron, advancing to Stoker in April 1905; Stoker 1st Class, April 1906; Leading Stoker, April 1908; Stoker Petty Officer, February 1910; Chief Stoker, 1 January 1918. He was awarded the L.S. & G.C. whilst in Comus on 28 July 1921, and was shore pensioned on 12 June 1922.
Sold with both Army and Navy original documents, including parchment certificates of discharge, character and qualifications; printed Special Divisional Order for M.I.D., dated Harrismith 19 November 1900; letter from The Royal Niger Company, dated 28 December 1899, requesting details of Bayford’s current address for delivery of the medal; Army Account Books (2); parchment certificate of service in the Royal Navy, and parchment certificate of Qualifications in Stoker Ratings; together with various copied medal roll extracts.
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Four: Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant J. E. Bolton, 5th Lancers
India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (4642 Lce. Corpl. J. E. Bolton. 5th Ryl. Irish Lcrs.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Cape Colony (4642. Corpl. J. E. Bolton. 5/Lcrs.) unofficial rivets between top two clasps; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4642 Serjt: J. E. Bolton. 5th Lancers.); Army L.S. & G.C.,
E.VII. R. (4642 Sq. Q.M. Sjt: J. E. Bolton. 5/Lrs.) together with two regimental cap badges, the first with slack suspension, contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine (6)
£400-£500 4 officers and 10 men of the 5th Lancers entitled to the clasp for Tirah 1897-98, all attached to the Commissariat Transport Department.
Sold with copied medal roll extracts confirming all medals and clasps and a copied 28pp typed account kept by Sergeant G. Burridge, also of the 5th Lancers, of his experiences in the Boer War.
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