The mounted group of four miniature dress medals attributed to Colonel E. A. Burrows, Royal Artillery

Order of St. Michael and St. George, gold and enamel, with gold buckle on ribbon; Jubilee 1897, silver; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Tugela Heights, Rel. of Ladysmith; Laing’s Nek, Orange Free State, Belfast, South Africa 1901, mounted as worn, first with slight enamel damage, very fine and better (4) £80-100

Edmund Augustus Burrows was born on 19 March 1855, the son of Canon Burrows of Rochester, Kent. He entered the Army in 1875 and was appointed a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1900. He was awarded the C.M.G. in 1900 and the C.B.E. in 1919. Latterly a J.P. for Buckinghamshire and living at The Manor House, Long Crendon, Thame, he died on 19 May 1927. For his son’s full-size medals, see Lot 1214.