Campaign Groups and Pairs 180
Pair: Driver G. T. Gatehouse, “Q” Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, who was wounded at the Battle of Sannah’s Post on 31 March 1900, and was subsequently entered into the Ballot for the Victoria Cross
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Transvaal, Wittebergen (11482 Dr. G. T. Gatehouse, Q.B., R.H.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (11482 Dvr: G. T. Gatehouse. R.H.A.) edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (2)
£800-£1,200
G. T. Gatehouse attested for the Royal Horse Artillery, and served with “Q” Battery in South Africa during the Boer War. He was wounded at the Battle of Sannah’s Post on 31 March 1900.
Resulting from De Wet’s ambush of General Broadwood’s Brigade at Korn Spruit (Sannah’s Post), “Q” Battery Royal Horse Artillery behaved with great gallantry and managed to save four of its guns from an apparently hopeless situation. The conduct of the battery was praised by Brigadier-General Broadwood in his report on the action. As a result of this report, Lord Roberts took the unusual step of ordering the battery to ballot for the Victoria Cross, to choose one officer, one non commissioned officer, one gunner and one driver to receive the coveted award, there being no other fair way to choose four from so many who performed so heroically on that day. As a result, Major Edmund John Phipps-Hornby, Sergeant Charles Edward Haydon Parker, Gunner Isaac Lodge, and Driver Horace Henry Glasock were each awarded the Victoria Cross. Gatehouse’s name would have been in the ballot for the Victoria Cross to the ‘Driver’.
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Family Group:
Three: Private A. W. Neve, East Kent Regiment, who was killed in France on 18 March 1916 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (4893 Pte. A. W. Neve. E. Kent. Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (SR-62 Pte. A. W. Neve. E. Kent. R.) very fine
Pair: Private P.W. Neve, Army Ordnance Corps British War and Victory Medals (024767 Pte. P. W. Neve. A.O.C.) very fine Coronation 1902, Police Ambulance Service, bronze (Pte. W. Neve.) very fine, scarce to unit (6)
£240-£280
Amos William Neve, of Sissinghurst, Cranbrook, Kent, attested for the East Kent Regiment (The Buffs) and served with them in South Africa during the Boer War, and with ‘A’ Company, 6th Battalion (Special Reserve) during the Great War. He was killed in action on the Western Front on 18 March 1916; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France.
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Four: Sergeant E. W. Smith, Hampshire Regiment, late Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Transvaal, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (8423 Pte E. W. Smith. Rl: Warwick Regt) unofficial rivets between 1st and 2nd clasps, and mounted in this order; 1914-15 Star (13513 Cpl E. W. Smith. Hamps: R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (13513 Sjt. E. W. Smith. Hamps. R.) mounted for display, generally very fine or better (4)
£120-£160
M.I.D. London Gazette 28 November 1917. Enos W. Smith served during the Great War with the Hampshire Regiment in the French theatre of war from 21 September 1915.
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Pair: Private C. F. Weare, Yorkshire Regiment
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (3253 Pte. C. F. Weare, Yorkshire Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3253 Pte. F. Weare. York: Regt.) contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine (2)
£200-£260 See Lot 751 for related family medal.
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