The Collection of Medals Formed by Bill and Angela Strong

Six: Captain Bernard Cave-Brown-Cave, Wiltshire Regiment, late Sierra Leone Frontier Police Constabulary

East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Sierra Leone 1898-99 (Mr. B. C. B. Cave, S. Leone F.P.C.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Capt. B. Cave-Brown-Cave, R. of O.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Capt. B. Cave-Brown-Cave, R. of O.); 1914-15 Star (Capt. B. Cave-Brown-Cave, Wilts R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. B. Cave-Brown-Cave) generally good very fine (6) £600-700

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Bill and Angela Strong Medal Collection.

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Bernard Cave-Brown-Cave was born at Malvern, Worcestershire, on 23 February 1868. After a little over 5 years service in the ranks of the Dorset Regiment, from June 1885, he was commissioned into the Wiltshire Regiment as 2nd Lieutenant on 23 July 1890. Having resigned his commission in July 1895, he joined the Sierra Leone Police as an Inspector and subsequently served in the operations in that country in 1898-99, including the Songo Town-Kwalu Expedition during which he was dangerously wounded (Medal with clasp). He served in the South African War of 1900-02 as a Special Service officer, attached to the Mounted Infantry (Queen’s medal with 3 clasps, King’s medal with 2 clasps). He served in France with the 20th Bn. Wiltshire Regiment from 29 November 1914, until wounded in 1915. Captain Cave-Brown-Cave died in the U.K. on 5 April 1917 and is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in St Matthew’s Church, Cheltenham.

Sold with copied service papers and other research.