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QSA (2) Cape Colony, Driefontein (299 Trpr: K. Hamilton, Ceylon M.I.) officially impressed naming

Trooper Kenneth Hamilton, Ceylon Contingent, died of enteric at Bloemfontein on 13 May 1900.

Sold in the same lot as two other QSAs to members of the Hamilton family.

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Coronation 1902, bronze, unnamed as issued;
QSA (3) Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (331 S.S. Cpl. A. E. Pate. Ceylon M.I.)

Address c/o: Cinnamon Gardens, Colombo, Ceylon.

Medal issued 29 April 1901.

QSA listed on WO100/211p79

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Described as:

HAMPSHIRE, Bisley, National Rifle Association, Life Member’s Pass, bone, bowman and rifleman standing, rev. legend, named (Th. Wright) ink script below unclear, 45mm, 9.55g (W 1509). Small surface flaw, otherwise very fine and very rare; pierced for suspension £100-£150.

Colonel Thomas Yates Wright, MBE, VD (1869-1964), tea-planter, cricketer and legislator in Ceylon; founding president of the Ceylon Athletic Association; served as a 2nd Lt in the Ceylon Planters’ Rifle Corps in the Boer War and was the CO of the Corps from July 1904 to February 1912.

Hammered at £50.

Rare Boer War medals to Captain Algernon Charles Corbetta, one of the 125 men of the unit who served in the Ceylon Mounted Infantry in South Africa. During WW1 he served in Salonika as a Captain with the 6th Royal Dublin Fusiliers, later transferring to the Royal Air Force in 1918.

Queen’s South Africa Medal, 1899, with two clasps CAPE COLONY, DRIEFONTEIN, impressed named 369 TRPR: A CORBETTA.CEYLON M.I.;
CEYLON PLANTERS RIFLE CORPS silver shooting medal, unnamed with hallmarks.
Ceylon Mounted Rifles badge approximately 63mm diameter with two retaining lugs to the rear, and has the makers mark: HOBSON and SONS, LONDON.

Captain Algernon Charles Corbetta was born on 16/3/1875 in Norwich, Norfolk, England. On the outbreak of the Boer war, he was residing in Ceylon (possibly emigrated 1896) and working for the Maturatta Group tea planters. He served in the Boer War with the Ceylon Mounted Infantry (1st Contingent) which consisted of 125 men, serving from February 1900 – 1901. He qualified for the QSA and clasps Cape Colony and Driefontein. He returned to Ceylon post war and moved on to manage rubber plantations in North Borneo in 1911 and 1913 appeared in several newspaper articles.

His RAF service papers record his address 1914 – 15 as Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, being a tea and rubber planter. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant on 16/4/1915 and posted to the Norfolk Regiment. His MIC records the 2nd Battalion (who were in Mesopotamia) while his RAF papers record the 3rd Battalion (Home service U.K.). He landed in Salonika in October 1915 and was seconded to the 6th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers as a Temporary Captain in command of a Company at the start of 1916. He appears on a hospital book dated 15/7/1916 as being attached to 6th Royal Dublin Fusiliers with ten months in the field and one year 5 months service. He was later posted to the 3rd and later 1st Garrison Battalion Royal Irish Regiment attached RAF. He transferred to the Royal Air Force on 1/7/1918 – 10/7/1919 (Middle East) posted to 3 Cdt Wing. At the end of the war, he was posted to HQ Middle East until 7/1/1919 and then to England being transferred to the unemployed list in June 1919.

Post war he emigrated to Broome, Western Australia on 7/11/1922. He was employed by the Swan Brewing Company (Perth) as a senior clerk prior to his death after a long illness on 07/09/1931. He is buried in the Anglican section of Karrakatta Cemetery in Western Australia.

Thank you Azyeoman. A really nice pair of medals which chronicles his full life.

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OBE;
Queen's Sudan (Lieut. A. S. Toogood, R. Warwickshire Rgt.)
QSA (6) Cape Colony, Driefontain, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast, South Africa 1901 to (Captain A. S. Toogood, 'Ceylon Mounted Infantry);
IGS 1908 (1) North West Frontier 1908, Captain A. S. Toogood, Royal Warwicks Rgt.
Khedives Sudan (1) The Atbara (Lieut. R. Warwicks Rgt,)

He received the OBE for WWI work, he commanded depot of 3rd Reserve Bttn, R. Warwicks Rgt on Isle of Wight L.G Vol.2 - 3rd June 1919. He died aged 96, he was Lieut. Col. Arthur Seymour Toogood & well known personage in Winchester. Substantial copy research included, badges, buttons, crowns etc.