Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant W. J. Bray, Western Light Horse, late Scott’s Railway Guards

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Relief of Mafeking, Defence of Kimberley, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut., Scotts Rly. Gds.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Lieut., Western L.H.); Mayor of Kimberley’s Star 1899-1900, reverse hallmark with date letter ‘b’, lacking brooch bar, very fine (3) £600-700

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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William J. Bray, was a Miner born in Cornwall. Working in South Africa at the time of the Boer War, he served as a Corporal in the De Beers Maxim Battery attached 23rd Co. R.G.A., 11 October 1899-8 April 1900; a Trooper in the Kimberley Light Horse, 9 April-5 June 1900; Sergeant, later Lieutenant in Scott’s Railway Guards, 18 May 1901-30 April 1902, and a Lieutenant in the Western Light Horse to 31 May 1902. With copied roll extract and other research.