Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private G. H. Avery, Imperial Yeomanry Hospital Staff and National Fire Brigades’ Union

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (Pte., I.Y. Hp. Staff); National Fire Brigades’ Union Medal for South Africa 1899-1902 (G. Avery, Cockington) second with some contact marks, very fine and better, rare (2) £1000-1200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Boer War Tribute Medals formed by the late George Williams.

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Ref: J5.

It is believed that approximately 42 National Fire Brigades’ Union Medals were awarded - issued to volunteers from the organisation who went to South Africa attached to the Medical Corps - working in hospitals, dressing stations etc. At the end of their service, the volunteers returned home and were presented with their medals by H.M. Queen Alexandra, Patroness of the N.F.B.U., at Earls Court in 1902.

Cocklington, a parish in Devonshire, near Torbay.