Auction Catalogue

30 March 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 463

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30 March 2011

Hammer Price:
£360

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Rhodesia, Relief of Mafeking, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (Lieut. E. E. White, Imp. Yeo.) unofficial connections between last three clasps, good very fine £300-350

Edward Esrkine White was born in Hankow, China, on 3 April 1877. He was educated at Stoneyhurst College. In the Boer War he initially served as Trooper 88 in the Southern Rhodesian Volunteers; he was then commissioned into the 27th Squadron, 7th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry. Lieutenant White was A.D.C. to Colonel R. P. Kekewitch, C.B., 1 May 1901-30 September 1901. He was severely wounded in the groin at Moediwil, 30 September 1901 - it was in this action that Private W. Bees, 1st Battalion Derbyshire Regiment won a Victoria Cross.

White was gazetted to the West India Regiment from the Imperial Yeomanry in 1902, and in 1907 joined the Bedfordshire Regiment, transferring to the Northamptonshire Regiment in 1908. Promoted to Captain in 1910, he was killed in action with the 1st Battalion - being shot through the head at the battle of the Aisne, 14 September 1914. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the La Ferte-sous-Jouarre Memorial. With copied research.