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Thank you.
What a wonderful and detailed account.
Clive.

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DSO VR, top ribbon bar adapted for mounting; Q
QSA (3) Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Capt. H. J. V. Phillips. S. Wales. Bord.);
KSA (2) (Cpt. H. J. V. Phillips. D.S.O. S.W. Bdrs.)

DSO London Gazette 27 September 1901: ‘In recognition of services during operations in South Africa.’

Henry Jacon Vaughan Phillips was born in 1868, son of Mr Cambridge Phillips, magistrates’ clerk for the Defynoch Division of Breconshire, and author of the standard work on the birds of Breconshire. Henry was educated at Brecon College, joined the 3rd South Wales Borderers Militia in November 1886, and served until he was appointed superintendent water bailiff in May 1909. He served in the South African War of 1899-1902 as Acting Intelligence Officer. He also performed the duties of Transport Officer. Captain Jacob was present at the operations in the Orange Free State from April to May 1900; operations in Orange River Colony between May and 29 November 1900; operations in Cape Colony in 1900; operations in the Transvaal from May 1901 to January 1902; operations in the Orange River Colony from 30 November 1900 to March 1901; and operations in Cape Colony from April to May 1901, and January to February 1902. He was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 10 September 1901). The Insignia were presented by the King on 2 June 1902. Major Phillips died on 6 May 1914, aged 46 years.

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DSO VR;
QSA (4) Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, date clasp a tailor’s copy (Capt. H. P. Frankland, D.S.O. Lanc. Fusrs.) engraved naming;
1914 Star, with copy clasp (Captain A. P. Frankland. D.S.O. Lan: Fus.);
British War and Victory Medals (Major A. P. Frankland.)

DSO London Gazette 25 July 1901: ‘In recognition of service during operations in South Africa.’ The original recommendation adds: ‘For conduct of a convoy near Petrusberg. His good disposition, pluck and coolness saved the convoy.’

Arthur Pelham Frankland was born in Dover on 23 December 1874, the second son of Colonel Sir William Adolphus Frankland, 9th Baronet, of Heath House, Shropshire. Educated at Oxford and Sandhurst, he was appointed from the Royal Military College to a commission in the Suffolk Regiment in the London Gazette of 27 September 1895, and was awarded the D.S.O. whilst serving with the 1st Battalion in South Africa. Transferred to the 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, he was slightly injured on 23 April 1901 at Roodeval; the casualty list published in The Globe on 27 April 1901 confirms the injury, adding: ‘by a fall from his horse.’



Promoted Captain, Frankland returned home with his Regiment and was decorated with the DSO by His Majesty King Edward VII at an investiture held at Buckingham Palace in July 1901. Transferred to the Army Reserve as Captain, he had another equine-associated accident in 1904 when a butcher’s cart ‘driven at a furious rate’ caused him to fall off his bicycle in Harpur-street, Bedford. The Bedfordshire Mercury noted: ‘the witness [Frankland] cut his knee rather badly and was severely shaken’. Recovered from his injuries, Frankland later took employment as a land agent in the Channel Islands and for Prince Blucher at Crowcombe Court, Somerset, before settling down at Thirkley House in Ascot.

Transferred to Army Reserve as Captain, Frankland was recalled to the Colours upon the outbreak of the Great War and served in France with the 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, from 19 September 1914. Raised Major, attached Royal Flying Corps (Anti-Aircraft Headquarters), he qualified 1st class interpreter in French and was employed in the formation of Group Headquarters at Birmingham from November to December 1917. Twice Mentioned in Despatches, he died in Hampshire in January 1948.