Fead and Tribe family medals and archive:

China 1857-60, 1 clasp, Canton 1857, unnamed as issued, attributed to Captain Henry John Tribe, Royal Marines

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Major C. W. Tribe, A.O.D.)

Three: Lieutenant H. E. S. Tribe, Army Service Corps

1914-15 Star (2 Lieut., A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.)

War Medal 1939-45, unnamed, in card forwarding box addressed to E. S. D. Tribe, very fine and better (6)
£350-450

Sold with a large quantity of original paperwork, including:

1. Commission Document (3), G.III.R., appointing George Fade (sic) to be Second Lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, dated 15 December 1760; another, appointing George Fead to be Captain in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, dated 7 July 1779 and another (torn), appointing him Major in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, dated 16 November 1792. Sold with copied biographical research on George Fead, 1729-1815, who attained the rank of Lieutenant-General, and who in his early military career was present at the siege of Louisburg and served in the Flanders Campaign of the Duke of York. He was made Governor of Port Royal in 1810.

2. Letter from the Herald’s College, requesting the return of the Order of the Bath Companion’s badge, following the death of the recipient - Lieutenant-Colonel George Fead (son of the above, 1782-1847), together with a receipt for the same. Fead was a Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel in the 1st Foot Guards, wounded at Waterloo. His C.B. was awarded for the battle. Also with a hand-written memorials and a letter to Mrs Fead, his wife, from Windsor Castle, dated November 1846.

3. Commission document, V.R., appointing Henry John Tribe (1821-63) to be First Lieutenant in the Royal Marines, dated 7 July 1847; together with hand-written pages from a diary detailing his military service including that during the Second China War; a letter to Mrs Tribe following the death of her husband from Yellow Fever at Bermuda; various newspaper cuttings.

4. Commission document, V.R., appointing Cecil Walford Tribe (son of the above, 1859-1945) to be 2nd Lieutenant in the Land Forces (100th Foot), dated 8 January 1880; Royal Military College Farnborough Report, January 1880; three photographs of the recipient in uniform and an ‘Anonymous Letter’ addressed to Mr Tribe from Irish Republican Headquarters, ‘You have already got 3 weeks notice to leave this country so you better make the most of the next 2 weeks or you will be sorry you did not take your warning when you got it. So clear out at the end of the coming 2 weeks or before if you can but not later or you wont be able to go. ...’ Also with associated certificates of birth, marriage etc.

5. Commission document, G.V.R., appointing Henry Edward Scott Tribe to be 2nd Lieutenant in the Land Forces (A.S.C.), dated 26 June 1915; together with some wartime papers and a photograph of the recipient.

Together with family trees and other papers, both original and copied.