Pair: Lieutenant A. C. H. Garsia, Durham Light Infantry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (Lieut., Durham L.I.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Lt., Dur. L.I.) mounted for wear, minor contact marks, good very fine (2) £400-500

Aubrey Christie Haly Garsia was born on 13 January 1876, the eldest son of Captain Christopher Garsia, late Bengal Staff Corps, of Christchurch, New Zealand and Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset. He was educated at Christchurch Boys High School. Subsequently serving as a Trooper with the 4th New Zealand Contingent in South Africa, he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Durham Light Infantry in May 1900, and promoted to Lieutenant in November 1901. Lieutenant Garsia drowned in the Scinde River, Kashmir, on 8 July 1905; sold with copied research.