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Campaign Groups and Pairs 131 Three: Acting Colour Sergeant B. Wallis, Volunteer Company, Hampshire Regiment, later Labour Corps


Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (350 Serjt: B. Wallis. Vol: Coy. Hants: Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (282103 A.C. Sjt. B. Wallis. Labour Corps.) mounted court-style, nearly extremely fine (3)


£100-£140


Benjamin Wallis was born at Kingsclere, Berkshire, and was an apprenticed engineer with London and South West Railway when he attested for the Hampshire Regiment at Winchester on 18 February 1902, aged 25 years 7 months. He was promoted from Private to Sergeant on the same day in view of his previous service in the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment and served in South Africa with the 3rd Volunteer Active Service Battalion from 8 March to 31 July 1902. He was discharged on 30 August 1902, having signed up for 1 year or for the duration of the War in South Africa. During the Great War he served in the Labour Corps as an Acting Colour Sergeant and qualified for the British War and Victory Medals.


Sold with copied attestation papers, medal roll extracts and Medal Index Card.


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Pair: Private W. R. Jones, King’s Royal Rifle Corps


Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (8927 Pte. W. R. Jones, K.R.R.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (8927 Pte. W. Jones. K.R.R.C.) very fine


£140-£180 Sold with copied medal roll extracts.


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Four: Lieutenant W. A. Knight, Veteran Regiment, South African Forces, late Kimberley Town Guard


Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Kimberley (Pte. W. A. Knight. Kimberley Town Gd:); 1914-15 Star (Lt. W. A. Knight Veteran Rgt.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Lt. W. A. Knight.) mounted as worn, very fine (4)


£180-£220 134


Six: Petty Officer First Class H. Sayce, Royal Navy


China 1900, no clasp (H. Sayce, P.O. 2 Cl., H.M.S. Wallaroo.); 1914-15 Star (132956. H. Sayce. P.O.1. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (132956 H. Sayce. L.S. R.N.); Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (Henry Sayce. R.N. May. 3. 1907) with Second Award clasp dated ‘26th Nov 1918’, with bronze ribbon buckle; Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Marine Medal, 3rd issue, silver (To Henry Sayce. For Gallant Service. 26th Nov: 1918) with silver ribbon buckle, mounted for wear, good very fine (6)


£1,400-£1,800 Provenance: Edrington Collection 1980 and Fevyer collection 2008.


M.I.D. London Gazette 13 April 1915. For ‘good behaviour and coolness under fire’ aboard H.M.S. Mersey off the coast of Belgium, 17 October to 9 November 1914.


‘Awarded Testimonial on Vellum by Royal Humane Society for helping to save life on 2. 10. 1900’ (Ref. service papers).


R.H.S. Bronze Medal (Case No. 35,280): ‘On the 3rd May, 1907, A. P. Truscott, an A.B., threw himself from a boat into Portsmouth harbour. Henry Sayce, Petty Officer, H.M.S. Excellent, jumped in and rescued him in an unconscious state.’


Clasp to R.H.S. Medal (Case No. 44,619) and Liverpool Shipwreck Silver Medal and Certificate of Thanks: ‘To Customs Officer Henry Sayce, for bravely diving into the River Mersey from the St George’s Landing Stage, Liverpool, and rescuing a man immersed, on the 26th November, 1918.’


Henry Sayce was born at Pembroke Dock, Pembroke, on 16 July 1869, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Impregnable on 12 May 1885. He rose to become Petty Officer 1st Class in April 1896 but was demoted to Leading Seaman in September 1898 for incompetence, thus denying himself the award of the L.S. & G.C. medal. He served aboard Wallaroo from February 1900 to December 1903, achieving Petty Officer status once again in June 1900. Pensioned to shore in July 1909, he was recalled for war service on 2 August 1914.


Sold with copied service papers, gazette extracts and other research. www.dnw.co.uk all lots are illustrated on our website and are subject to buyers’ premium at 24% (+VAT where applicable)


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