Six: Company Sergeant Major C. H. Jarvis, Cape Auxiliary Horse Transport Corps

British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Rhodesia 1896, no clasp (Troopr. C. H. Jarvis. M.R.F.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Kimberley (593 Pte. C. H. Jarvis. Kimberley Vol: Regt.); 1914-15 Star (Pte. C. H. Jarvis 7th Infantry); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (C.S.M. C. H. Jarvis C.A.H.T.C.); Mayor of Kimberley’s Star 1899-1900, reverse hallmark with date letter ‘a’, reverse engraved ‘Municipal B. Section’, lacking integral top riband bar, mounted court-style for display, good very fine (6) £700-£900

Charles Herbert Jarvis was born around 1873 at Adelaide in the Eastern Cape, and served as a Trooper with the Matabeleland Relief Force in 1896 and as Private in the 2nd Battalion, Kimberley Volunteer Regiment during the Boer War before taking civilian employment as a timekeeper. He served with the 7th South African Infantry during the Great War, before joining the newly-formed Cape Auxiliary Horse Transport Corps on 1 April 1917, and travelled to France aboard Euripidies, arriving on the Western Front on 23 May 1917. Jarvis returned home at the cessation of hostilities aboard Ingoma, disembarking at Cape Town on 17 July 1919.

Sold with copied service record and research which notes total strength of the newly-formed Cape Auxiliary Horse Transport Corps as 6214 men in 1916.