Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Wepener, Transvaal, Wittebergen (Capt. A. H. Warren, Border Horse) nearly extremely fine £400-450

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals relating to the Boer War formed by two brothers.

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Albert Henry Warren was born in Stutterheim, Cape Colony on 7 November 1869. He became a Trooper in the Pioneer Corps for the Mashonaland Expedition of 1890. During the Second Boer War he enlisted at Kei Road on 9 November 1899, as a Trooper in the 1st Brabant’s Horse. Warren was commissioned a Lieutenant on 26 November 1899 and promoted to Captain on 28 January 1900. As a Captain in the 1st Brabant’s Horse, he served at the defence of Wepener. On 28 April 1900 he resigned from the unit and on the following day became a Captain in the Border Horse. Resigning from this unit in November 1900, he then became a Captain in ‘A’ Squadron Stutterheim District Mounted Troops and later a Captain in the Union Defence Force, Reserve of Officers. With copied ‘Brabant’s Horse’ attestation form and other research.