Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (4548 Cpl. B. Fairbrother, 76th Bty. R.F.A.), rank corrected, very fine £120-160

Bertram Fairbrother was born in Todenham, Gloucestershire. Formerly employed as an Omnibus Conductor, he attested for service in the Royal Artillery on 26 June 1894, aged 22 years, 2 months. Promoted to Corporal in August 1897, he served in the Boer War, 1 January 1900-24 December 1901, with the 76th Battery R.F.A. He was discharged at the termination of his first period of engagement on 25 June 1906. Sold with copied service papers and an article on the man, medal and unit in the Boer War - A Gloucester man’s Boer War, by Geoff. Fawcett, Medal News, May 2002.