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After the huge CIV sale at DNW last year, I am surprised that only a few of these lots have reappeared on the market.

London Medal Co are advertising the single QSA (3) CC OFS Tr to D97 PTE. A.V. STRIKE, C.I.V. who went on to be killed on the Somme in 1916.

The medal sold at DNW for a hammer price of £190 and is now offered for £475. No new information about Archibald Strike has been added by the LMC.

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QSA (3) Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (91 Pte E. A. W. Milroy. C.I.V.)

Edward Andrew Wallace Milroy was born at Marylebone, Middlesex on 6 May 1873 the son of Reverend Andrew Wallace Milroy and Mary Elizabeth Rosher. Leaving Winchester on 18 October 1892 he attended Balliol College, Oxford before embarking upon a career in the legal profession. He joined the Inns of Court Rifle Volunteer Corps on 22 March 1897 shortly before they became the 14th Middlesex City of London Imperial Volunteers.

He took part in the Second Boer War with 2nd Mounted Infantry before returning to England. By 1910 he was a partner in a law firm by the name of Monier-Williams, Robinson & Milroy in London while living in Wimbledon.

He married Alice Shoberl at Kingston, Surrey in 1919. Milroy died late in 1966 at St. Martins Hospital, Bath

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QSA (5) Cape Colony, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen, Belfast (1179 Pte. T. J. Beynon, CIV);
1914-15 Star (L-27394 Gnr. T. J. Benyon. R.F.A.);
BWM 1914-20 (L-27394 Gnr. T. J. Beynon. R.A.) with damaged named card box of issue;
[ VM ];
Memorial Plaque (Theophilus John Beynon);
together with a Masonic Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee 1837-97 medal by Kenning London, silver-gilt, enamel and brilliants, with top bar and pin, missing 5 brilliants;
and a St. James Union Lodge 1787 Medal with No. 180 clasp and top bar with pin, silver, hallmarks for London 1895, and enamel, reverse engraved, ‘G. J. Taylor W. M. to John Beynon 1895’



Theophilus John Beynon was born in 1879 in Holloway, London, the son of Benjamin and Sarah Beynon and was a resident of Manorbier, Pembrokeshire. He joined the 1st City of London Artillery Volunteers in 1898 and was ranked Bombardier before he then served with No. 2 Company of the Mounted Infantry, City of London Imperial Volunteers in South Africa during the Boer War. On his return a complimentary ‘Return of the CIV’ dinner was held in honour of him and Private G. Young at the Assembly Rooms, Pembroke, 5 November 1900. Each of them was presented with an engraved silver cigarette case.

Benyon served with the Royal Field Artillery during the Great War on the Western Front from 28 November 1915 and was killed in action on 26 May 1917 whilst serving with the X/6th Trench Mortar Battery.

He was the husband of Gertrude L. Beynon, of 11, Kemble Road, Forest Hill, London and is buried in Philosophe British Cemetery, Marzingarbe, France.

Note: All CIV recipients of the Belfast clasp served in No. 2 Company of the Mounted Infantry.

Sold with the following: Two studio portrait photographs of the recipient in CIV uniform taken by the London Stereoscopic Company; Order of Service for CIV Farewell Service held at St. Paul’s Cathedral on 12 January 1900; City Press Illustrated CIV souvenir publications Nos. 2 and 3, the former containing portrait photograph of the recipient; CIV ‘Welcome by the City of London Corporation’ dinner menu, dated 27 October 1900; Programme for ‘Return of the CIV Complementary Dinner to Privates G. Young and Theo Beynon at the Assembly Rooms, Pembroke, November 5th 1900’; ‘(Late) CIV Programme of Concert at Guildhall, December 12th 1908’; photograph, 205mm x 153mm, of section of 1st City of London Royal Garrison Artillery Volunteers, featuring the recipient wearing QSA medal; Newspaper pages from the Free Press and Economic Advertiser, 2 November 1900 and the Pembrokeshire Times, 8 November 1900 with articles describing the homecoming of the recipient from the Boer War and the welcome reception given in his honour at the Pembrokeshire Assembly Rooms respectively; an original copy of the recipient’s marriage certificate dated, 21 February 1903; Royal Artillery collar badge; book register - The War Graves of the British Empire Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, France; and a quantity of other family photographs, postcards and ephemera.

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MC GV, unnamed as issued;
QSA (4) Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (56 Pte. R. J. Cook. CIV);
1914 Star (TS-2048 Pte. R. J. Cook. ASC);
BWM and VM (2. Lieut. R. J. Cook) the BWM named ‘upside down’, mounted as worn;

Together with the recipient’s related miniature awards, the 1914 Star with clasp, these also mounted as worn; and a Hammersmith Boer War Tribute Medal, bronze, the obverse engraved ‘Hammersmith is Grateful & Proud of You’ within laurel wreath, the reverse plain, the edge engraved ‘Pte. R. J. Cook. Reg. No. 56 B Co. CIV’, with top ‘South Africa’ riband bar, in J. F. Hone, Hammersmith case.

For more details of the Hammersmith Tribute Medal, see here: www.angloboerwar.com/medals-and-awards/2...s/h/4222-hammersmith

MC LG 16 August 1917: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. Having led his company with great courage and secured his objective, he went forward to assist another company which had been checked, and enabled them to capture their own objective. He showed great initiative, and, although slightly wounded, carried on with the consolidation, setting an excellent example to his men.’

Robert John Cook, a dyer by occupation, was born in 1878 and joined the 3rd City of London Rifle Volunteers in 1896. He served in the Infantry Battalion of the City Imperial Volunteers in South Africa during the Boer War, and had two letters published in the City Press, the first on 23 May 1900, regarding spending his pay on food; and the second on 31 October 1900, regarding the celebrations for Lord Roberts’ birthday.

Enlisting in the Army Service Corps, Cook served with the 1st Brigade during the Great War on the Western Front from 20 August 1914, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the London Regiment on 27 January 1916. Awarded the Military Cross whilst serving with the 1st/7th Battalion, he relinquished his commission following the cessation of hostilities, and was awarded a Silver War Badge.

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QSA (4) Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (566 Pte. C. J. Brymer, C.I.V.),
Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, GV 1st issue (1) The Great War 1914-18 (Coy. Cmdr. Cecil J. Brymer).

Together with four Medals given to the recipient by the Ancient and Honourable Company of Boston dating from the H.A.C. visit to Boston in 1903.

Cecil John Brymer was born in West Ham, London on 14 December 1872. At the time of his death in 1933 the following was written about his life in the Sunday Mirror of 31 March 1933:

‘Mr Cecil John Brymer, who died at Ikona, Furze Hill, Purley, on Saturday in his 61st year, was educated at Merchant Taylors’ School. He became a member of the London Stock Exchange in 1902 and for many years was a partner in the firm of A. Walter Ramsay & Co. As a member of the H.A.C. [since 1893] he served with the City Imperial Volunteers [Infantry Battalion] in the South African War and on his return was given the Freedom of the City of London. During the Great War he served in the City of London Police Reserve, in which he was an inspector. A member of the Skinners’ Company since 1901, he became Master in 1931. He was a member of the governing bodies of Tonbridge School and of the Northampton Polytechnic Institute, and a governor of the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy. He was also twice Master of the Pellipar Lodge of Freemasons.’

Private A.G. Eatley (640)