Orders, Decorations and Medals

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Rev. A. W. Dawes, B.A., C. to F.), together with related dress miniature medal, South African War Veterans Association membership badge, and a bronze confirmation medallet, the first with severe edge bruising and damage to rim, otherwise generally very fine (4) £160-180

Alfred Wilkinson Dawes, a graduate of Corpus Christi, Cambridge, who was ordained in 1894, served as a Chaplain to the Forces 1899-1902, originally at Dover and Shorncliffe, but afterwards in South Africa, including operations on the Zululand frontier in Natal September to October 1901. Returning to the U.K., he held assorted appointments as a priest over the coming years, including one in Malta 1909-12, and was re-employed by the Army Chaplains Department in the Great War - thus service in Dover 1914-17 and in Portslade 1917-18, and his advancement to Chaplain to the Forces 2nd Class - the equivalent rank of Lieutenant-Colonel - in July 1916. Latterly the vicar for Midgham, near Reading, Dawes died in the early 1950s; sold with full career details.