Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Lieutenant A. S. L. Verley, 9th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, taken prisoner while serving in the Boer War with French’s Scouts, and killed in action during the Battle of Messines in August 1917
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (10013 Serjt., French’s Scts.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.) nearly extremely fine (3) £350-450

Albert Stuart Leonard Verley was born in 1880, and came from Kingston, Jamaica, where he lived with his parents. When the Boer War broke out, he took passage to Johannesburg and enlisted there for French’s Scouts, quickly attaining the rank of Sergeant. He was taken prisoner at Bethesda on 18 August 1901, but was later released. He was discharged at Cape Town in January 1902, and headed for the family home in Rockliffe, Westoe, South Shields, later returning again to Jamaica, where he took up penkeeping. On the outbreak of war in 1914, he again sailed for England and volunteered for service in 1915. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Dubli Fusiliers and took part with the 9th Battalion, in the heavy fighting at Messines, where he was killed in action on 16 August 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial. Sold with copy Attestation and Discharge papers for French’s Scouts and other research.