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Surprisingly so. Even taking into account commission, etc.
Is the market flat in the UK?
Regards
IL.

I thought the prices were pretty reasonable. It was some of the pairs etc that were quite high priced - there's always today!!!

The pair to Sgt F Lowe, 6th DG


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DCM EdVII (Serjt: F. Lowe. 6th Dragoon Guards)
QSA (5) RoK Paard Dief Joh DH (2715. Corpl. F. Lowe. 6/Dn. Gds.)

Provenance: J. B. Hayward, May 1979; Buckland, Dix and Wood, April 1995.

DCM LG 27 September 1901.

Frederick Lowe was born in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, in 1868, and attested there for the Royal Welsh Fusiliers on 25 April 1888, having previously served with the 4th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. He transferred to the 6th Dragoon Guards on 14 July 1889, and was promoted Corporal on 20 December 1893. Transferring to the Army Reserve on 25 April 1895, he was recalled to the Colours on the outbreak of the Boer War on 7 October 1899, and served with the Regiment in South Africa from 4 November 1899, being promoted Sergeant on 4 May 1900. He was severely wounded at Vredes Verdrag, Zand River, on 11 May 1900. At this action three Squadrons, taken from the Australian Horse, the Inniskillings and the Greys, and half a Squadron of the Carabiniers, were ordered to seize an apparently unoccupied kopje. The Squadrons, dismounting and leaving their horses below, took possession of the kopje, but shortly afterwards were set upon by a party of the Waterberg commando, who had been lying in ambush in a donga, and now crept up the hill, stampeded the horses, and poured a withering fire on the cavalrymen. These, belonging to several different units and being apparently under no single command, made no stand, but were driven in confusion down the hill, losing fourteen killed and thirty-six wounded, besides two Officers and twenty-five men prisoners. The Carabiniers suffered especially, losing Captain Elworthy and three men killed, and Lieutenants Collis and Moncrieff, and nine men wounded, three of whom died later.

Less than two months later, on 3 July, Lowe was taken prisoner at Kameeldrift, along with Lieutenant Rundle and seven other men, and was subsequently released at Nooitgedacht on 5 September 1900. For his gallantry in South Africa he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal, and later received a gratuity of £20. Returning home on 24 April 1901, he was discharged on 11 June 1901, after 13 years and 48 days’ service.

Six D.C.M.’s were awarded to the 6th Dragoon Guards for South Africa.

Group to QMS F S Marsland, RAMC.


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DCM Ed VII (6399 2nd. Cl: S. Sjt: F. S. Marsland. R.A.M.C.);
QSA (3) CC OFS Tr (6399 1/S. Sgt. F. S. Marsland. R.A.M.C.);
KSA (2) (6399 S.Serjt: F. S. Marsland. R.A.M.C.);
Coronation 1911, silver (Qr. Mr. Sgt. F. S. Marsland. Late R.A.M.C.) contemporarily engraved naming;
Army LS&GC Ed VII (6399 1st. Cl: S. Serjt: F. S. Marsland. R.A.M.C.)

Provenance: Christie’s, July 1983.

DCM LG 27 September 1901.

Frederick Stanley Marshland was born in Malta in 1865 and attested for the Medical Staff Corps at Aldershot on 20 February 1885, having previously served as a Chemist and Druggist. Promoted Corporal on 2 October 1889, and Sergeant on 13 July 1892, he was advanced to Staff Sergeant 2nd Class, Royal Army Medical Corps, on 30 June 1899, and served with the Corps in South Africa from 2 November 1899 until 6 April 1903. For his services in South Africa he was promoted Staff Sergeant on 30 August 1900, was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal, and was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 4 September 1901). Returning home, he was awarded his Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal per Army Order 75 of April 1904. He was discharged on 29 July 1908, after 23 years and 161 days’ service, the last four years of which were spent in the Nursing Section.

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DCM, Ed VII (Serjt:-Maj: G.W. Mortiboy. Bethune’s M.I.);
QSA (6) CC, TH, OFS, RoL, Tr, LN (2734 Sq. Sjt. M: G.W. Mortiboy. 18/Hrs.);
KSA (2) (2734 S. Serjt:-Maj: G. Mortiboy. 18th. Hussars);
Defence Medal;
Coronation 1902, bronze;
Coronation 1937;
Army LS&GC EdVII. (2734 Sq: Sjt: Maj: G.W. Mortiboy. 18th. Hussars.);
MSM GVI (Sq. S. Mjr. G.W. Mortiboy. DCM 18-Hrs.)

DCM LG 31 October 1902.

George William Mortiboy, was born in Edmonton, Middlesex, in 1864 and attested for the 18th Hussars in October 1884. He was promoted Corporal in May 1888 and Sergeant in September of the following year, and served with the Regiment in India from September 1891 to October 1898, being promoted Squadron Sergeant Major in May 1894. He sailed with the Regiment to South Africa in October 1898, and saw action during the Boer War, both with the 18th Hussars and subsequently on attachment with Lieutenant-Colonel Bethune’s Mounted Infantry from 20 December 1899:
‘While we were at Ladysmith a force under Colonel Bethune had been holding Greytown and the line of the Tugela, that force being five squadron’s Bethune’s Mounted Infantry, one squadron Umvoti Mounted Rifles, two 12-pounders, R.G.A., two 7-pounders, Natal Field Artillery, two Hotchkiss, Natal Field Artillery, and six companies of Imperial Light Infantry. This force I had directed to advance concurrently with our advance on Vermaak’s Kraal, and we established connection with it on the morning of 13th May. Colonel Bethune’s arrangements had been very good. He had seized during the night, with his left, the hills which commanded the southern sides of the pass up which we had approached. Shortly before noon we advanced up the pass. The enemy made a poor defence and fled, pursued by the Colonial mounted troops, and Natal was, almost without loss, cleared of the enemy.’ (General Buller’s Despatch, dated 24 May 1900 refers).

Mortiboy was twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 8 February 1901 and 29 July 1902), the first being in the Despatch quoted above, and was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. Returning home, he was awarded the 1902 Coronation Medal for forming part of the Coronation contingent, and received his Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 11 April 1903. He transferred to the City of London Imperial Yeomanry (Rough Riders) on 16 May 1903, and retired as Squadron Sergeant Major on 1 May 1911. He re-enlisted for service during the Great War in the City of London Yeomanry Reserve on 14 September 1914, and served throughout the War at home as regimental Sergeant Major, finally being discharged on 23 May 1919. He was awarded his Meritorious Service Medal in June 1939, and died in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, on 12 March 1948.

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DCM VR VR (2265 Bomb: N. Baker, R.F.A.);
QSA (3) CC Tr Witt (2265 Cpl N. Baker, 8th Batt. R.F.A.) partially officially corrected;
KSA (2) (2265 Corpl: N. Baker. R.F.A.)

DCM LG 19 April 1901.

Nelson Baker was born in Hailsham, Sussex, in 1875, and attested for the Royal Artillery at Eastbourne, Sussex, on 22 January 1894. He served with the Artillery in India from October 1896 until April 1898, before being invalided home, and then in South Africa with No. 8 Battery from 21 January 1900 until 10 August 1902, being promoted Corporal on 26 June 1900. For his gallantry in South Africa he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal, together with a gratuity of £20. He was discharged on 21 January 1906, after 12 years’ service, and subsequently re-attested for the Army Reserve as a Corporal on 1 February 1906, being discharged on 31 January 1910 after a further 4 years’ service.