Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Captain J. P. Hunt, South Staffordshire Regiment, formerly 23rd Company (Lancashire), 8th Imperial Yeomanry
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, S.A. 1901 (2792 Pte. J. Hunt, 23rd Coy., 8th Imp. Yeo.); 1914-15 Star (Lieut., S.Staff.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); together with Royal Humane Society vellum certificate awarded 15 January 1902; K.S.A., 2 clasps (Tpr. J. Hunt, Driscoll’s Scouts), this re-named; Royal Humane Society bronze medal, naming erased, research shows that Hunt was not entitled to these last two medals although he obviously felt that he was, as also included with the lot is an original photograph of him in officers uniform wearing all of the above listed medals, very fine or better (6) £100-150

Royal Humane Society Certificate awarded 15 January 1902 ‘Trooper James Hunt, Imperial Yeomanry is justly entitled to the Honorary Testimonial of this Society inscribed on vellum which is hereby awarded him for having in October 1900 gone to the rescue of Trooper Mucklow who was in imminent danger of drowning in the Modder River South Africa and whose life he gallantly saved.’