Ashanti 1900, 1 clasp, Kumassi (Serjt. Maj. A. Griggs, W.A.F.F.) low relief bust, suspension slack and polished, therefore good fine £600-700

Ex Lieutenant-Colonel A. M. Macfarlane Collection, D.N.W. July 2001.

Sergeant-Major Griggs served with 2 Battery North Nigeria Regiment, and was one of only 4 officers and 4 men, Royal Artillery, to receive this clasp.

Griggs was wounded at Kokofu, as reported in Colonel Willcocks’ despatch of 14 August 1900 (London Gazette 4 December 1900):

‘On 23rd May Captain Hall attacked Kokofu but being opposed by vast numbers of the enemy was unable to capture it; his troops behaved well, but he was attempting a task which more than double the numbers were unable to effect later. On this occasion Lieutenant Edwards, Sierra Leone Frontier Police, Sergeant Griggs, R.A., West African Frontier Force, and six men were wounded.’

Sold with copied medal roll and London Gazette entry.