Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Warrant Officer Class 1 Robert Dornan, Royal Army Service Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith (11996 Tptr., A.S.C.); 1914 Star, with clasp (T-11996 C.Q.M. Sjt., A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (T-11996 W.O. Cl. 1, A.S.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (11996 C.Q.M. Sjt., A.S.C.), mounted as worn, the first with contact marks and a little polished, otherwise generally very fine (5) £250-300

Robert Dornan was born in Aldershot and enlisted in the Army Service Corps as a boy recruit in September 1894, aged 14 years. Appointed a Trumpeter in February 1896, he was embarked in the Braemar Castle for South Africa in October 1899, where he served in No. 16 Company, A.S.C. until being invalided home in July 1900. Advanced to Corporal in September 1902, to Sergeant in December 1905 and to Company Quarter-Master Sergeant in January 1910, he was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in Army Order 117 of 1913.

Dornan went on to witness active service with No. 3 Company, 19th Divisional Train, out in France from mid-August 1914 to April 1915, and again from July 1915 to October 1918, this time as a member of 19th Division’s No. 58 Field Ambulance or as a member of No. 4 Company. Having then gained advancement to Warrant Officer Class 1, he was finally discharged in November 1920.

Sold with an original photographic postcard depicting the S.S. Braemar Castle; also see Lot No. 1078 for his brother’s Honours & Awards.