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David,

A superb group, I think a BSA always enhances a group.

Paul

djb wrote:

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A lovely group to Lieutenant T GA Miller, Duke of Edinburgh's Own Volunteer Rifles and Intelligence Department, Later Light Horse Regiment, Australian Imperial Force.

BSA CM (0) rev Rhodesia 1896 (Tpr. T.G.A. Miller, Matab. Rle. Fce.)
CGH GSM (1) Bechuanaland (Lieut. T.G.A. Miller. Intell. Dept.)
QSA (1) CC (Lieut: T.G.A. Miller, D.E.O.V.Rif:)
1914-15 Star (285 Cpl. T.G.A. Miller. 2/L.H.Rgt. A.I.F.)
BWM (285 Pte. T.G.A. Miller. 2/L.H.Rgt. A.I.F.)
VM (285 Cpl. T.G.A. Miller. 2-L.H.R. A.I.F.)

Lieutenant Thomas George Alexander Miller, born July 1869, the son of Sir Thomas Macdonald Miller, 4th Baronet, and the brother of Sir William Frederick Miller, 5th Baronet, and Francis Macdonald Miller; served in the Matabeleland campaign, the Bechuanaland campaign, and in the Boer War; subsequently emigrated to Rockhampton, Queensland; enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force, 20.8.1914, and served during the Great War with 'B' Squadron, 2nd Australian Light Horse Regiment (severely wounded); returned to Australia, 17.10.1916; died, 28.6.1939.

Estimate £800 to £1,200

The group to Surgeon General W H McNamara from the next Spink auction


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A Fine 1898 'Sudan' C.B., 1901 'South Africa' C.M.G. Group of Eight to Surgeon-General W.H. McNamara, Royal Army Medical Corps, Principal Medical Officer in Both the Sudan and South Africa

CB mil b/b
CMG b/b
Egypt (1) Tel-El-Kebir (Surgn Maj: W.H. McNamara A.M. Dept.)
Queen's Sudan (Lt. Col: W.H. McNamara. R.A.M.C.)
QSA (1) CC (Surgn: Genl: W.H. McNamara, M.D., C.B., C.M.G., R.A.M.C.)
KSA (2) (Surg: Genl. W.H. McNamara, M.D., C.B., C.M.G., R.A.M.C.)
Khedive's Star 1882
Khedive's Sudan (2) The Atbara, Khartoum (Colonel W.H. McNamara. R.A.M.C.), contemporarily engraved in sloping sans-serif capitals,

C.B. London Gazette 15.11.1898 Colonel William Henry McNamara, M.D., Royal Army Medical Corps
'In recognition of services in Egypt and the Sudan, including the Battles of Atbara and Khartum.'

C.M.G. London Gazette Colonel William Henry McNamara, M.D., F.R.C.S.I., C.B.
'In recognition of services in South Africa'

Surgeon-General William Henry McNamara, C.B., C.M.G. (1846-1915), born Corbally, Limerick, Ireland; educated at Queen's College Cork and Ledwich School of Medicine, Dublin; qualified as M.D. at Queen's University of Ireland, 1867; appointed Surgeon, Army Medical Department, later the same year; posted for service with the 106th Foot, 1868; Surgeon Major 1879, 'he served in the Egyptian war of 1882, with the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers... In the Nile expedition of 1898 he served as Principal Medical Officer at first of the British brigade, afterwards of the British division, was present in the actions of the Atbara river and of Omdurman, was mentioned in dispatches in the London Gazette of May 24th and September 30th, 1898... In South Africa he served from 1899 to 1902, at first as Assistant Principal Medical Officer afterwards as Principal Medical Officer of the lines of communication, was mentioned in the London Gazette of April 16th, 1901 and July 29th, 1902' (British Medical Journal, Obituary refers); made a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, 1881; advanced Brigade Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel, 1893; granted local rank of Surgeon-General whilst acting as Principal Medical Officer in South Africa from, 17.4.1900; retired 1905; and lived in Ealing for the latter part of his life.

tossing this one into the mix... 849 Pte G. Dalgetty, Marshall's Horse

Egypt DCM and an erased QSA group to M Saddler, Captain in Nesbitt's Horse during the Boer War.

DCM VR ( 1494 Q.M.Sergt Saddler. 2/R.W.K.R. Sept. 82)
Egypt (1) TEK (Qr. Mr. Sgt. Mtd Inf.)
QSA (1) CC (erased)
KSA (2) (Captain & Q.M. Nesbitt's H.)
MSM VR (Q.M.Sergt. Corps of M.S. Clerks)
Khedive Star


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Michael Sadler (or his alias Sadlier according to his papers) was born in St. Pauls, Dublin in October 1854 and enlisted in the 97th Royal West Kent’s on the 3rd November 1868, stating his age as 14 years 1 month and his trade a tailor.

Served at home for approximately 12 years with trips abroad in between home service to Jamaica 1 year 55 days, Bermuda 1 year 248 days, Nova Scotia 3 years 249 days, Gibraltar 55 days, South Africa 1880 to 1882 1 year 149 days, Egypt August 1882 to November 1882, and 6.1.1886 to 31.5 1888.

His campaigns were South Africa Field Force 80- 81 (no medals issued).

Egypt 1882 as Quartermaster Sergeant, Mentioned in General Wolsey’s despatches serving with the Royal West Kent Mounted Infantry, one of only 4 non- commissioned men mentioned in despatches. Mashonaland Field Force 1884-85, no medal issued, and saw service in the Boer War with Nesbitts Horse.

Awarded the LS& GC about 1890, which had to be returned when he was awarded his annuity M.S.M. with £10 on 20th January 1894, while serving with the Corps of Military Staff Clerks. Died in November 1912.

The D.C.M is a unique award to the Royal West Kent’s for the whole Egyptian campaign of 1882 and one of only four D.C.Ms for the 1882 campaign.

The Egypt medal with clasp Tel-El-Kabir, was presented to him by Queen Victoria at Horseguards Parade on November 21st 1882, and she pinned it on his chest.

Boer War DCM to QMS C Preston, North Staffs.


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DCM VR (1939 Qr. Mr. Sjt. C. Preston, 4th N. Staff. Regt.)
QSA (1) CC (1939 Q.M. Sjt. C. Preston, N. Stafford Regt.)
KSA (2), SA01, SA01 (1939 Qr. Mr. Sjt. C. Preston, N. Stafford Regt.)
Army LS&GC EdVII. (1939 Q.M. Sjt. C. Preston, N. Staff. Regt.)

DCM LG 27 September 1901. Charles Preston, a native of Burntwood, enlisted in the North Staffordshire Regiment at Lichfield in February 1886, aged 19 years. Posted to the 4th (Militia) Battalion as a Colour-Sergeant in December 1899, he was re-appointed Quarter-Master Sergeant in the same month and embarked for South Africa, where he served from March 1900 until February 1902. The Battalion was employed in the south-west of CC, where a number of commandos had broken away southwards, hoping to stir up the Boers of the Cape. In June 1901, a detachment of the 4th Battalion holding the small town of Richmond was attacked by a superior force of the enemy. A number of small sangars on kopjes overlooking the town were overrun but the main position held out all day and the in the evening the Boers withdrew. Here, then, the likely action for which Preston was awarded his DCM He was also mentioned in despatches (LG 10 September 1901). Preston was discharged at Lichfield in November 1907, having been awarded his LS&GC Medal in April of the same year.

Good old 97th, they were part of the Natal Field Force during the Transvaal War and were certainly available to Sir George Pomeroy Colley, should he have wished to deploy them, sadly and very unwisely, he did not.
He himself, ended up paying a very high price and was buried in sight of Majuba, with a most impressive memorial in the form of a stone cross.
A nice group!

djb wrote: Egypt DCM and an erased QSA group to M Saddler, Captain in Nesbitt's Horse during the Boer War.

DCM VR ( 1494 Q.M.Sergt Saddler. 2/R.W.K.R. Sept. 82)
Egypt (1) TEK (Qr. Mr. Sgt. Mtd Inf.)
QSA (1) CC (erased)
KSA (2) (Captain & Q.M. Nesbitt's H.)
MSM VR (Q.M.Sergt. Corps of M.S. Clerks)
Khedive Star

Picture courtesy of Dixons Medals

Michael Sadler (or his alias Sadlier according to his papers) was born in St. Pauls, Dublin in October 1854 and enlisted in the 97th Royal West Kent’s on the 3rd November 1868, stating his age as 14 years 1 month and his trade a tailor.

Served at home for approximately 12 years with trips abroad in between home service to Jamaica 1 year 55 days, Bermuda 1 year 248 days, Nova Scotia 3 years 249 days, Gibraltar 55 days, South Africa 1880 to 1882 1 year 149 days, Egypt August 1882 to November 1882, and 6.1.1886 to 31.5 1888.

His campaigns were South Africa Field Force 80- 81 (no medals issued).

Egypt 1882 as Quartermaster Sergeant, Mentioned in General Wolsey’s despatches serving with the Royal West Kent Mounted Infantry, one of only 4 non- commissioned men mentioned in despatches. Mashonaland Field Force 1884-85, no medal issued, and saw service in the Boer War with Nesbitts Horse.

Awarded the LS& GC about 1890, which had to be returned when he was awarded his annuity M.S.M. with £10 on 20th January 1894, while serving with the Corps of Military Staff Clerks. Died in November 1912.

The D.C.M is a unique award to the Royal West Kent’s for the whole Egyptian campaign of 1882 and one of only four D.C.Ms for the 1882 campaign.

The Egypt medal with clasp Tel-El-Kabir, was presented to him by Queen Victoria at Horseguards Parade on November 21st 1882, and she pinned it on his chest.