Orders, Decorations and Medals

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (Troopr. J. Weatherley, Border Horse) a few scratches over rank, otherwise nearly extremely fine £400-500

It is interesting to speculate whether the recipient was a relative of his Commanding Officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Weatherley, and his two sons, both of whom served as officers in the Border Horse. One of them, and the Colonel, fell at Inhlobane Mountain on 28 March 1879, a disastrous encounter that resulted in 17 officers and 82 other ranks being killed, besides many more wounded, most of the fatalities being inflicted on Buller’s force during its headlong flight down “The Devil’s Pass”. Of these fatalities, five were officers and 42 N.C.Os or other ranks from the Border Horse. In fact such was the carnage caused by the Zulus’ assegais that they renamed Inhlobane the “Stabbing Mountain” - also see the footnotes to Lot 631 for a good account of the disaster.