Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Private A. G. Green, 2nd Rhodesia Regiment, who died on active service in East Africa in April 1916

1914-15 Star (850 Pte., 2-Rhodesia Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (850 Pte., 2-Rhodesia Regt.), together with related Memorial Plaque (Arthur Graham Green), and cap badge, good very fine (5) £300-350

Arthur Graham Green, the son of Edward and Eugenie Green of Simonstown, South Africa, was educated at St. Andrew’s College, Grahamstown prior to taking up an appointment in the Rhodesian Civil Service. Enlisting in the Rhodesia Regiment soon after the outbreak of hostilities, he was posted to the 2nd Battalion, and died on active service in East Africa on 7 April 1916, most probably of wounds received in the Kilimanjaro operations of the previous month, when his unit took part in the attack on Latema Nek on the 11th-12th, and suffered casualties of 15 killed and 43 wounded. For, as confirmed by Commonwealth War Graves Commission records, he was buried at Voi, then a hospital centre for our wounded, and today in Kenya. Green was 21 years of age.

Sold with the recipient’s original Buckingham Palace memorial scroll, together with a quantity of photographs (15), these last with images of school days in South Africa through to active service in the Great War.