Campaign Groups and Pairs 158 Pair: Trooper J. H. Shelah, South African Constabulary
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (222 3rd Cl: Tpr: J. H. Shelah. S. A.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (222 Tpr: J. H. Shelah. S.A.C.) nearly very fine (2)
£100-£140
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Pair: Trooper C. E. Elliott, Natal Police
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Natal, Transvaal (874 Pte C. [sic] Elliott. Durban L.I.); Natal 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (Tpr: C. E. Elliott, Natal Police.) both mounted with top riband buckle, very fine (2)
£220-£260
x160
Pair: Private M. McDonald, Kimberley Town Guard
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Kimberley (Pte. M.
Mc.Donald. Kimberley Town Gd:); Mayor of Kimberley’s Star 1899-1900, reverse hallmark with date letter ‘a’, reverse contemporarily engraved ‘M. Mc. D. M. Mc. D.’, lacking integral top riband bar, nearly very fine (2)
£400-£500
Magnus McDonald was previously employed by De Beers. Sold with copied medal roll extract.
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Pair: Lieutenant the Hon. M. F. S. Howard, 8th Hussars and 18th Hussars, later Honourable Artillery Company, who was Mentioned in Despatches for his gallantry at Zillebeke on 28 February 1915, and was killed in action at Polygon Wood, Passchendaele, on 9 October 1917
King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lt. Hon. M. F. S. Howard. 8/Hrs.) engraved naming; British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut. Hon. M. F. S. Howard) small area of erasure at 3 o’clock on BWM, good very fine (2)
£100-£140
The Hon. Michael Francis Stafford Howard was born in Kensington, London, on 23 January 1880, the sixth son of George James Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 8th Hussars on 18 November 1899, having previously held a commission in the 4th (Volunteer) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. He served with the 8th Hussars in South Africa during the Boer War (entitled to the Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasps for Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Paardeberg, and Belfast), and was advanced Lieutenant, before transferring to the Reserve of Officers. In March 1904 he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Anglesey Royal Engineers (Militia), and in December of that year transferred back to the Regular Army, this time as a Second Lieutenant in the 18th Hussars.
Following the outbreak of the Great War Howard proceeded to France with the 18th Hussars, and served with them on the Western Front from 9 November 1914 (entitled to a 1914 Star). For his services with the 18th Hussars he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 22 June 1915)- the Regimental History incorrectly reports that he was awarded the D.S.O. for this action: ‘At Zillebeke on 28 February 1915, Lieutenant Howard and Sergeant Mason, both of “A” Squadron, volunteered to go out and obtain vital intelligence. They had to dodge the German post in the communication trench, examine the latter, find out the number of occupants, and discover in what way the German communication trenches ran up to the captured trench. They did their work so thoroughly and sent in such a valuable report that Lieutenant Howard received the D.S.O. and Sergeant Mason the D.C.M. for their respective services. They had, indeed, performed a difficult and dangerous task and well merited the awards.’
For reasons unknown Howard relinquished his commission in the 18th Hussars, and in 1917 enlisted as a Private in the Honourable Artillery Company. He served with his new unit during the Great War on the Western Front from 25 April 1917, and was killed in action at Polygon Wood, near Passchendaele, on 9 October 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.
Sold with a large quantity of copied research.
Note: According to the recipient’s Medal Index Card, Howard’s widow was originally issued with a British War and Victory Medal pair named to him as 10246 Private, H.A.C. These were returned, and a 1914 Star trio was subsequently issued named Lieutenant (18th Hussars) in 1922.
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Pair: Leading Stoker 1st Class H. Waite, Royal Navy
China 1900, no clasp (H. Waite, Lg. Sto. 1Cl., H.M.S. Barfleur.); Coronation 1902, bronze, unnamed as issued, light contact marks, very fine (2)
£240-£280
Henry Waite (alias Waight) was born in Portsmouth in July 1865. He enlisted into the Royal Navy in July 1890 serving first in the guard ship H.M.S. Asia as a Stoker Second Class. In July 1900 he was posted to the pre-dreadnought battleship H.M.S. Barfleur where he served with the ship’s company during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. This ship put landing parties ashore which were involved in the storming of the Taku forts and in relieving the foreign legations at Tientsin. During the Great War, having attained the rate of Chief Stoker, Waite saw service ashore with H.M.S. Victory and H.M.S. Fishgard. He was invalided out of the Navy in June 1919, receiving a Silver War Badge.
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