Pair: Serjeant Thomas Stanley Treanor, Natal Police, late Brabant’s Horse

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (Serjt., 1/Brabant’s Horse); Natal 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (Tpr., Natal Police) second initial over-struck, mounted as worn, edge bruising, contact marks, nearly very fine and better (2) £180-220

Thomas Stanley Treanor was born on 11 July 1876, in Westport, Co. Mayo, Ireland, the son of the Revd. T. Stanley Treanor. He was educated at Marlborough, where he was captain of both cricket and rugby, and at Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the Royal West Kent Regiment and served in Aden, Singapore and Burma. He retired in 1900 and lived in South Africa. During the Boer War he served in the Utrecht Mounted Police, February-May 1901, and Brabant’s Horse, May-December 1901; after the war he served as a Trooper in the Natal Police and latterly, the South African Police, 1903-24. He died at Pietermaritzburg on 26 August 1939. Sold with original Certificate of Discharge from the Utrecht Mounted Police, 8 May 1901; Certificate of Discharge from the South African Police, 18 May 1924; newspaper cutting with obituary; a page taken from a book showing the pedigree of the ‘Stanleys’ - these four laminated. Also with copied ‘Brabant’s Horse’ service papers and death notice.