TOPIC:

Picture courtesy of Noonan's

QSA (3) Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (875 Ordly: H. Rushby, St. John Amb: Bde:);
SJAB Medal (875 Pte. H. Rushby. Leicester Corps);
Defence Medal;
Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, GV (4) The Great War 1914-18, Long Service 1929, Long Service 1939, Long Service 1942 (Harold Rushby)

Picture courtesy of Noonan's

QSA (1) Natal (1113 Ordly: J. Pooler, St. John Amb: Bde:);
SJAB Medal (1113. Pte. J. Pooler. Madeley Div.)

Picture courtesy of Noonan's

QSA (1) Natal (999 Ordly: W. Rawstron, St. John Amb: Bde;);
SJAB Medal (999. Pte. W. Rawstron. Newchurch Div:)

Picture courtesy of Noonan's

QSA (1) Natal (499 Ordly: J. Price, St. John Amb: Bde:);
SJAB Medal (499. Pte. J. Price Sheffield Corps:)

Picture courtesy of Noonan's

The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, silver and enamel;
SJAB Medal (529 Pte. W. J. Foster. Preston Corps.);
1914-15 Star (42522, Sjt. W. J. Foster. R.A.M.C.);
British War and Victory Medals (42522 Sjt. W. J. Foster. R.A.M.C.);
Coronation 1911, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Cpl. W. J. Foster.);
Service Medal of the Order of St John, with three Additional Award Bars, and a ‘5 Years Service’ clasp (Corp. Walter James Foster. (Hdqrs. Div: Preston Corps S.J.A.B.) 1914)

Walter J. Foster served with the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Great War on the Western Front from 23 December 1914.

NO QSA identified.

Picture courtesy of Noonan's

QSA (4) copy clasps, Cape Colony, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (191 Sply: Ofcr. E. Roseveare. St. John Amb: Bde:);
British War and Victory Medals, with MID (Capt. E. Roseveare.);
Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (Capt. E. Roseveare. Devon. R.);
Defence Medal;
Territorial Decoration GV, HM 1919;

Together with a Devonshire Regiment Old Comrades label badge and an ARP silver label badge.

MID London Gazette 18 May 1918: ‘For operations against the Mahsuds, March-August 1917’

Edwin Roseveare was born in Plymouth in 1873 and was educated at Queen’s College, Taunton. As a Sergeant in the Newton Abbot Division St. John Ambulance Brigade, attached 20th Field Hospital Royal Army Medical Corps, he volunteered for service in South Africa and served as a Supply Officer in 1900. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 2nd (Prince of Wales’s) Volunteer Battalion, Devonshire Regiment on 29 January 1902, he was appointed Captain of the 5th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment on the formation of the Territorial Army on 1 April 1908.

Embodied for Great War service with the 5th Battalion, Roseveare embarked for India on the Staff of Wessex Division and was appointed Railway Transport Officer at Lahore on 14 February 1916. Appointed Assistant Director Railway Transport, Waziristan Field Force, on 13 June 1917, for his valuable services rendered in Waziristan and on the North West Frontier he was Mentioned in Despatches. Awarded the Territorial Decoration the following year (London Gazette 15 July 1919), he was disembodied in London on 13 April 1920 and was restored to the establishment of the 5th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment.

Appointed Lieutenant Colonel in command of the 5th Battalion on 1 September 1921, Roseveare relinquished command on 1 September 1925 and was promoted Brevet Colonel on transfer to the Reserve of Officers. During the Second World War he was appointed Divisional Warden ARP, Division 4, Millbay, Plymouth, serving in the heart of Plymouth Docks during the blitz. Subsequently President of the 5th Devons Old Comrades Association, he died at Plymouth on 30 May 1957, aged 84.

Sold with a two handled silver presentation cup (100mm diameter x 90mm height), engraved ‘5th (P.O.W.) Devon Regt. Rifle Club Officers Cup 1911 Won By Capt. E. Roseveare’