Orders, Decorations and Medals

Six: Major A. W. Grepe, Remount Officer, Royal Artillery

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (Capt., R.F.A.); King’s South Africa, 2 clasps (Capt., R.F.A.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (Capt., R.F.A.); 1914 Star, with clasp (Major); British War and Victory Medals (Major) the last four appear to be privately named replacements and the first pair are official replacements, good very fine (6) £100-150

Arthur Wellesley Grepe was born in January 1868, and attended the Royal Military Academy, as a Gentleman Cadet, in January 1886. He served in South Africa as Captain, R.G.A., and as Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, extra-regimentally employed with the Remount Establishment as Remount Claims Officer at Cape Town. He was mentioned in Lord Roberts’ despatch London Gazette 10 September 1901. In January 1903 he was appointed Remount Officer to the Somaliland Field Force, in which capacity he served until June 1903 when he returned to the U.K. He went back to South Africe as General Staff Officer with the Remount Department at Bloemfontein from January 1904 until March 1907. He retired in May 1908 and was re-employed in 1914 as Major on the Reserve of Officers. His Great War Medal Index Card shows that he went to France in June 1916 but makes no mention of the 1914 Star. He was appointed District Remount Officer in December 1919, for the Eastern Command, North Kent District, and died in London on 22 January 1922.