Auction Catalogue

17 September 1999

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Regus Conference Centre  12 St James Square  London  SW1Y 4RB

Lot

№ 115

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17 September 1999

Hammer Price:
£250

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, S.A. 1901, S.A. 1902 (Major L. T. C. Twyford, N. Staff. Rgt.) light contact marks, otherwise nearly extremely fine £120-150

Lionel Thomas Campbell Twyford was born in 1868, and educated at Tonbridge and Sandhurst, from where he joined the North Staffordshire Regiment in August 1884. He was Adjutant of the 2nd Battalion from 1892 to 1895, and for the three following years was Adjutant to the Provisional Battalion. He then became Inspector of Musketry in the North-Eastern District until he went to South Africa where he served on the Staff as District Commandant. He was appointed to the command of the 1st Battalion in 1909 and promoted to Colonel in 1912. Having retired in 1913 , he became a partner in the business of George Brettle & Co. Ltd. of Belper, Derbyshire, and chairman of the company in 1914. His elder brother Ernest was killed in action in the Boer War (see Lot 957).