Five: Quartermaster & Captain J. A. Harmer, Army Service Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 8 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (7525 S.S. Major, A.S.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (7525 S.S. Major, A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Q.M. & Capt.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (7525 S.S. Maj., A.S.C.) contact marks, nearly very fine and better (5) £650-750

James Augustus Harmer was born in London. A Carman by occupation, he attested for service with the Commissariat and Transport Corps at Westminster on 7 July 1887, aged 20 years, 8 months. Later as a Staff Sergeant-Major in the Army Service Corps he served in the Boer War and was mentioned in Lord Robert’s despatches (London Gazette 10 September 1901). He was discharged in 1912. He returned to the colours for the Great War and as a Quartermaster and Captain in the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, entering the Salonika theatre of war in December 1917. He was subsequently placed on the Silver War Badge List. Sold with copied attestation papers, m.i.c. and other reseacrh.