Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family group:

Four: Staff Serjeant William T. Dawes, Royal Army Medical Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (14186 Cpl., R.A.M.C.) part of service number, rank and initials re-impressed; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (14186 Corpl, R.A.M.C.); Coronation 1911, silver, unnamed; Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, E.VII.R. (2 S. Sjt., 1/N. Mid. F.A. R.A.M.C.) slight edge bruising and contact marks

Pair: Frederick A. Dawes

Defence Medal, unnamed; Special Constabulary Long Service, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Frederick A. Dawes) generally very fine (6) £220-260

Believed to be father and son. With note stating that William T. Dawes was born in 1873. He was invalided home from South Africa in 1902 with blood poisoning caused by septic matter entering a mosquito bite on his arm while operating. He died in 1939. With a postcard photograph of Staff Serjeant Dawes.