Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Captain D. J. Gibbons, Rhodesian Forces, late Imperial and Union Forces

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (Pte., I.D.); 1914-15 Star (Lt., 4th Infantry); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Lt.); Colonial Auxiliary Long Service, G.V.R. (Capt., S. Rhod. T.F.), mounted as worn, the first renamed and the last with corrected rank and loose suspension, somewhat polished, thus good fine or better (5) £180-220

David James Gibbons, who is believed to have served in the South Wales Borderers and the Intelligence Department in the Boer War, settled in South Africa and served as a member of the Prince Alfred Guard at Port Elizabeth, and as an Embarkation Officer in South-West Africa during the Great War. Moving to Umtali in Rhodesia in 1925, he was appointed a Lieutenant in the Southern Rhodesia Volunteers in May of the same year and was awarded his Colonial Auxiliary Long Service Medal in 1929. ‘Well known at weapon meetings as a range officer’, he was re-employed from the Reserve of Officers in September 1939 and appointed District Recruiting Officer at Salisbury, but he died suddenly a few weeks later.

Sold with two original portrait photographs, both with the recipient in uniform, together with birth and baptism certificates for his daughter, born in Port Elizabeth in 1910, and a local newspaper obituary cutting.

Also see Lot 1070 for the campaign awards to his Son-in-Law.