Pair: Acting Regimental Sergeant-Major R. Stagg, Montgomeryshire Yeomanry, late Trumpeter, 12th Lancers

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg (3879 Tptr., 12 R. Lancers); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3879 Corpl., 12th Lancers), the first with officially corrected rank, contact marks, otherwise about very fine or better (2) £140-160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals to Trumpeters from the Collection of Roderick Cassidy.

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Richard (Frederick) Stagg was born near Secunderabad, India and enlisted in the 12th Lancers in January 1895, aged 14 years. Appointed a Trumpeter in May 1899, he subsequently witnessed active service out in South Africa from October of the same year until the end of hostilities in 1902, a period that witnessed him reverting to the rank of Private, and then being advanced to Corporal. Indeed Stagg won steady promotion over the coming decade, attaining the rank of Squadron Sergeant-Major in March 1911, and two years later he transferred to the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry. Awarded the Army L.S. & G.C. Medal in October 1913, he served in the same unit throughout the Great War - but does not appear to have gone overseas - and was finally discharged in the rank of Acting Regimental Sergeant-Major.