Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Sergeant J. K. Lance, 19th Hussars
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Natal, Belfast (3743 Corpl. J. K. Lance, 19/Hrs.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3743 Serjt.J. K. Lance, 19th Hussars), the first with officially corrected number and edge bruise, otherwise generally good very fine (2) £350-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Brian Kieran Collection.

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John Kaye Lance was born in Cranbrook, Kent and enlisted in the 19th Hussars at Canterbury in November 1891, aged 24 years. Advanced to Corporal in October 1898, while stationed in India, he subsequently witnessed active service in South Africa from December 1899 to August 1902, in which period he qualified for the above described Medals & clasps (his service records refers). He had, meanwhile, been advanced to Sergeant in April 1901. Lance transferred to the Army Reserve in June 1903 and, according to accompanying family notes, died in December 1910.

Sold with a quantity of original documentation, including a fine portrait photograph of the recipient in uniform, taken at the Beach Studio, Durban; a family group photograph of the recipient and his family after he had left the Army, picture postcard format; a Majuba Hill commemorative card, with original pressed flowers; two pages taken from a Dutch Bible, with accompanying explanatory note, ‘Leaves of a Bible saved from a Boer Farm House when burnt to the ground’; two or three Boer War newspaper cuttings and a quantity of older documents, including a family tree and a two page hand written history of a family Bible which dated back to 1588.