Orders, Decorations and Medals

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Capt. F. W. G. Gore, Impl. Yeo.) good very fine £180-220

Francis William George Gore was born on 22 June 1855, the son of the Rev. George Gore of Newton St. Loe, Somerset. He was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford. He served in the Boer War as a Staff Captain in the Imperial Yeomanry, being present in operations in Transvaal east of Pretoria, July-August 1900; operations in Transvaal west of Pretoria, including the action at Zihkats Nek; operations in the Orange River Colony, July 1900, and operations in Cape Colony south of the Orange River, May-July 1900. During the Great War he again served with the Yeomanry, with the London Mounted Brigade. Latterly he was Lieutenant-Colonel of the City of London Yeomanry (Roughriders). In 1885 he married Lady Constance Milles, third daughter of the 1st Earl of Sondes, with whom he had two sons and two daughters. He was Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Glamorgan and a Justice of the Peace for both Glamorgan and Monmouth. Latterly of Courtrala, Glamorgan and 178 Ashley Gardens, London, S.W.1; he died on 17 July 1938. Sold with some copied biographical details.