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Gunner Goddard's QSA sold for a hammer price of GBP 550. Total GBP 708. R 16,320. AUD 1,320. NZD 1,410. CAD 1,160. USD 860. EUR 800.

The lovely NFA QSA sold for a hammer price of GBP 750. Total GBP 966. R 22,260. AUD 1,800. NZD 1,920. CAD 1,580. USD 1,170. EUR 1,090.

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Order of the Bath (KCB), gold and enamel;
Order of St Michael and St George (CMG), gold and enamel;
Ashanti Star 1896;
QSA (5) Cape Colony, Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Transvaal;
KSA (2);
1914 Star, with clasp;
British War and Victory Medals, with MID;
Belgium, Kingdom, Order of the Crown, Officer’s badge, silver-gilt, gold and enamel, with rosette on riband;
Croix de Guerre, A.I.R., bronze

Dix Noonan Webb, September 2002.

The recipient’s full-sized awards sold by DNW as part of the Colonel Riddick Collection of Medals to the Medical Services in December 2006.

Robert Porter was born in Co. Donegal on 31 January 1858, and educated at Foyle College, Londonderry, Glasgow University and Paris, qualifying as a M.B. at Glasgow in 1879. Entering the Army Medical Department as a Surgeon, and afterwards Surgeon-Captain in February 1881, he was promoted to Surgeon-Major in February 1893. He served in the Ashanti Expedition of 1895-96 for which he received an honourable mention. Next serving in the Boer War, he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel on February 1901, and was present in operations in Natal during 1899, including actions at Elandslaagte and Lombard’s Kop and in the defence of Ladysmith. He served for the remainder of the war in the Transvaal, Orange Free State and Cape Colony. Promoted to Colonel in January 1910, he was briefly placed on Half Pay on 14 January 1914.

Restored to Full Pay with the onset of war, Porter served in France and Flanders with the original British Expeditionary Force as Deputy Director of Medical Services, being ranked as Temporary Surgeon-General, Army Medical Staff in November 1914 and Surgeon-General (ranking as Major-General) in February 1915. From 1915 to 1917 he was Director of Medical Services to the Second Army. For his wartime services he was awarded the CB in 1916, CMG in 1919, the Belgian Order of the Crown 3rd Class and Croix de Guerre, and was six times Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 19 October 1914, 17 February 1915, 22 June 1915, 1 January 1916, 29 May 1917, and 24 December 1917). He was knighted, receiving the KCB in 1921.

Major-General Sir Robert Porter died on 27 February 1928, The Times of 28 February giving the following: ‘Sir Robert Porter was one of the distinguished group of “War Doctors” who built up on the Western Front the finest organisation for the relief of the wounded which had ever existed. He came to his great work as Director of Medical Services of the Second Army with a distinguished record and with a reputation for thoroughness in all that he undertook, between the years 1915 and 1917 that reputation was justified’.

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IGS 1895 (2) Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (4510 Pte. G. Spreadbury. 1st. Bn. Devon R.);
QSA (2) Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith (4510 Pte. G. Spreadbury, Devon: Regt.);
KSA (2) (4510 Pte. G. Spreadbury. 1st. Bn. Devon Regt.)

Noonan's state that he was wounded at Ladysmith on 7 January 1900. The Casualty roll has 6 January,

QSA verified on WO100/174p64. IGS and KSA also verified.

Liverpool Medals, November 1980 £195.

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IGS 1895 (2) Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (5172 Pte. A. Graham, 1st Bn. Gord. Hrs.);
QSA (2) Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith (5172 Pte. A. Graham, Gordon Highrs.)

IGS verified on WO100/89p152. QSA verified on WO100/202p367

London Stamp Exchange, August 1988.

A. Graham attested for the Gordon Highlanders, and served with the 1st Battalion in India, and then with the 2nd Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War, and was wounded during the Boer attack on Waggon Hill at Ladysmith on 6 January 1900.

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QSA (3) Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith, Belfast (92879 Dvr: T. Lane, 42nd Bty: R.F.A.);
[ KSA (2) ];
[ Great War medals ]

Thomas Lane. Born 1874. Attested 1892. Service papers extant.

QSA listed on WO100/141p196. KSA listed on W0100/307p254.

Died 9 August 1918. Buried in St. Amand British Cemetery, France.

Sold for a hammer price of GBP 460. Totals: GBP 592. R 13,460. AUD 1,090. NZD 1,200. CAD 980. USD 720. EUR 660

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QSA (4) Elandslaagte, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (39 Bomb: A. Rose. Natal F. Arty:) top two clasps somewhat bent;
Natal 1906 (1) 1906 (Sgt: Tai: A. Rose, A. Battery N.F.A.)

A. Rose is noted upon the Nominal roll for colonial units as having witnessed possible service with the Commander-in-Chief’s Bodyguard and the Natal Volunteer Composite Regiment as Trooper No. 613.

Together with three small silver hallmarked shooting medals, engraved to reverse: ‘N.F.A. Sergt. Rose 1904.’; ‘Cpl. Rose’; ‘Col. A. Beningfield’s Shield, 1899’ - this last with shield to obverse further engraved ‘Gunr A. Rose N.F.A.’