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IGS 1895 (2) PUNJAB FRONTIER 1897 – 98, TIRAH 1897 – 98, period engraved (3807 Lc Cp G H Chapman 1st Bn Gord Hrs);
QSA (5) CAPE COLONY, ORANGE FREE STATE, TRANSVAAL, SOUTH AFRICA 1901, SOUTH AFRICA 1902 (3807 SJT. H. CHAPMAN. 1ST GORDON HIGHRS).;
International Order of Good Templars Medal, engraved to reverse ‘South African Campaign 1899/1902 For Steadfastness Bro. Sergt. G. Chapman;
The Army Rifle Association’s ‘Queen’s Cup’ Medal, in silver, dated 1896, period engraved 1st Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders’. No. 3807 Lance Corporal G.H. Chapman engraved on rim; 47.5mm, 104.87g, in original box by Elkington (broken at hinge).

Described as:

Comes with copies of service papers, medal rolls and newspaper article. Sergeant George Henry Chapman was born in 1872 in Doncaster, Yorkshire. He was working as a board finisher when he enlisted in Leeds with the Gordon Highlanders on 2/4/1891, whilst serving with the 3rd Volunteer Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. After initial recruit training, he was assigned to the 2nd Battalion on 3/7/1891 and subsequently posted to the 1st Battalion on 5/4/1892. He joined the 1st Battalion in India, serving with there from 26/2/1892 – 18/10/1898. He was part of the 1st Battalion’s shooting team, winning the Queen’s Cup in 1896. He was present at the charge on the Heights of Dargai, during which two Victoria Crosses were won by the battalion. Lieutenant Tillard of the 3rd Gurkha Scouts described the charge:

“The scene makes me shake with excitement even now. The Gordons, pipers playing, and men cheering, never stopped or wavered although many of them were down. It was one wild continuous rush of men all eager to get to the enemy. The sight was magnificent and the excitement so intense that I for one, although I was shouting at the top of my voice, felt the tears springing up into my eyes and could not keep them back”.

The battalion lost 1 officer and 2 men killed, with 6 officers and 35 men wounded.

He was promoted to Lance Corporal on 8/3/1898 and served in Egypt from 19/10/1898 - 8/12/1898 and promoted to Corporal in April 1899. He deployed to South Africa between 16/2/1901 – 22/10/1902, being promoted to Sergeant on 4/1/1902. One medal roll records him having served with both the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders and the 23rd Mounted Company.

Post war he found employment as a school janitor in Dundee.

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[ IGS 1895 (2) };
QSA (1) Defence of Ladysmith (4329 Pte. V. Walsh. Gordon Highrs:)

Victor Thomas Walsh. Born 1873. Papers extant.

IGS listed on WO100/89p220. QSA (1) listed on WO100/203p407. Note says 'To England'.

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IGS 1895 (3) Relief of Chitral 1895, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98, clasp carriage on first clasp rebuilt to accommodate additional clasps (4185 Pte. S. Hare 1st Bn. Gord: Highrs.);
QSA (5) Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (4185 Cpl. S. Hare, Gordon Highrs:);
[ KSA (2) ]

Mounted Infantryman of the 2nd GH

Source: www.angloboerwar.com/forum/19-ephemera/3...-jack?start=66#93480

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DSO GV;
QSA (3) Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2nd. Lieut. K. H. Bruce. Gordons.);
IGS 1908 (1) North West Frontier 1908 (Lt. K. H. Brice. Gordons.);
1914 Star, with copy clasp (Capt. K. H. Bruce. Gordons.);
British War and Victory Medals, with MID (Lt. Col. K. H. Bruce. Gordons.);
Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued.

The named medals all stamped ‘Duplicate’.

DSO London Gazette 1 January 1917

Kenneth Hope Bruce was born on 26 May 1879 and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Oxford. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Gordon Highlanders on 23 May 1900, and served with the 2nd Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War. Promoted Lieutenant on 22 January 1902, he saw further service in India with the Mohmand Expedition in 1908, and was promoted Captain on 17 October 1908.

Bruce served during the Great War with the Staff on the Western Front from 4 October to 2 November 1914, and then again from 12 October 1915 to 2 June 1917, and was wounded at Ypres. Subsequently serving with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Palestine from 20 June 1917 to 28 June 1918, for his services during the Great War he was promoted Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel; was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 4 January 1917); and was appointed a DSO. Following the cessation of hostilities he was appointed Assistant Adjutant General, General HQ, British Army of the Rhine on 3 June 1919.

He died in London on 27 February 1970.

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QSA (4) Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Laing’s Nek, Belfast, with unofficial top retaining rod (8160 Pte. W. Brown, Gordon Highrs:);
KSA (2) (339 Tpr: W. Brown. Scot: Horse);
1914-15 Star (L/Cpl. W. Brown 8th Infantry.);
British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (L/Cpl W. Brown. 8th Infantry.);
1939-45 Star (32533 W. Brown):
Africa Star (32533 W. Brown):
War Medal 1939-45 (32533 W. Brown):
Africa Service Medal (32533 W. Brown):

Together with a rare Gordon Highlanders fob medal, gold (9ct., 7.49g), the obverse engraved ‘B. Coy., 6th V.B., Gordon Highlanders’, the revere engraved ‘Pte. W. Brown, South African War 1902’.

Sold with a photographic image of the men of the 6th Volunteer Battalion, Gordon Highlanders, in which the recipient is identified; and copied research, including an article written about the recipient during the Second World War:
‘Over-age but in the Army. Among the latest batch of South Africans to return to the Union on leave from North Africa is Sergeant W. “Dad” Brown, a member of the 2nd Battalion, Transvaal Scottish. A veteran of four campaigns with snowy white hair, he has been sent back because he is over-age.

“If they give me a change, I will go back again”, Sergeant Brown said. However, he confessed that the pace of modern battle made this “A young man’s war.”
“I am convinced after having been in the thick of it”, he said, “That it takes a young man to stand the pace in the front line. My spirit was, and still is, very willing, but somehow my body just could not always keep pace.”
He is full of praise for the fighting qualities of the present generation of South Africans. “They are grand fighters”, he said, “And in spite of reverses their morale is splendid.”
The returned men, about one hundred of them, acted as escort to one thousand Italian prisoners.’