Auction Catalogue

19 & 20 March 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 1045

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20 March 2008

Hammer Price:
£720

Seven: Serjeant Frederick Brooks, Rand Rifles, late Rifle Brigade

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (3213 Pte., 2/R. Bde.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Defence of Ladysmith, Transvaal (3213 Pte., Rifle Brigade); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (3213 Pte., Rifle Brigade); 1914-15 Star (Pte., Rand Rfls.); British War and Victory Medals (Sjt., Rand Rifles); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum, unnamed, mounted as worn, good very fine (7) £650-750

Frederick Brooks was born in Edmonton, London. A Gardener by occupation and a serving member of the 3rd (Militia) Battalion Middlesex Regiment, he attested for the Rifle Brigade at Hounslow on 6 April 1894, aged 18 years 5 months. Posted to the 2nd Battalion, he served initially in the U.K. and qualified for Mounted Infantry duties on 24 June 1895. He embarked for Malta on 23 September 1897 and from there joined the Nile Expedition, landing in Egypt on 12 July 1897. With the Rifle Brigade he served at the battle of Omdurman, 2 September 1898. The following month he was posted to Crete as a result of the troubles there. On 1 October 1899 he embarked for South Africa where he participated in the defence of Ladysmith. Brooks remained in South Africa after transferring to the Army Reserve on 29 September 1902 and discharge on 5 April 1906. With the onset of the Great War he enlisted into the Rand Rifles and was finally discharged on 11 February 1922.

Sold with copied ‘Rifle Brigade’ service papers.