Four: Major A. J. Attwood, Cape Police

Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-97, 1 clasp, Bechuanaland (499. Cpl. A. J. Attwood. C. Pol.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Defence of Kimberley, Orange Free State (Lieut: A. J. Attwood. Cape P.D. 1.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut: A. J. Attwood. C.P. Dist. 1.); Mayor of Kimberley’s Star 1899-1900, unnamed as issued, reverse hallmark with date letter ‘a’, with integral top riband bar, scratch to obverse of QSA, light contact marks, generally very fine (4) £800-£1,000

Arthur J. Attwood enlisted in the Cape Police on 22 September 1890 and served in the Bechuanaland Rebellion of 1897 with the rank of Corporal. He saw further service during the Boer War, and served with ‘C’ Squadron during the Siege of Kimberley. Commissioned Lieutenant in the 1st South African Mounted Rifles on 1 April 1913, he took part in the 1914 Rebellion from 1 September to 23 October 1914, and then during operations in German South West Africa from 18 May to 9 July 1915. Appointed an Acting magistrate at Otkiwarongo, South West Africa, in 1915, he saw further service as a Major with the Union Defence Force during the Second World War. He died in Pietermaritzberg in 1973 at the age of 102.

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