Pair: Lieutenant-Commander J. R. Cleave, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, late Lieutenamt, Durham Light Infantry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902 (Lieut., Durham L.I.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut., R.N.V.R.); together with miniature Q.S.A., nearly extremely fine (3) £160-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Durham Light Infantry and associated units.

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John Raymond Cleave was born on 6 April 1881 at Ilfracombe, Devon and educated at Marlborough College and Brasenose College, Oxford. During the Boer War he served as a Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion Durham Light Infantry; resigning his commission in 1904. He was re-commissioned as a Temporary Sub-Lieutenant in the R.N.V.R. on 1 January 1915 and attained the rank of Acting Lieutenant-Commander on 30 June 1919. He died at a nursing home on 15 February 1920.