Auction Catalogue

28 June 2000

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Regus Conference Centre  12 St James Square  London  SW1Y 4RB

Lot

№ 1066

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28 June 2000

Hammer Price:
£650

Four: Brigadier General J. A. Bell-Smyth, C.B., C.M.G., 1st King’s Dragoon Guards

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Relief of Mafeking, Belmont, Modder River, Orange Free State, Transvaal, S.A. 1901 (Capt. & Bt. Maj., 1/Drgn. Gds.); 1914 Star (Lt. Col., 1/D. Gds.); British War Medal (Brig. Gen.); Coronation 1902, in silver, generally very fine or better and the combination of clasps on the Q.S.A. probably unique to the regiment (4) £300-400

Brigadier General John Ambard Bell-Smyth served during the Boer War, on the Staff as A.D.C. to Lieutenant General Infantry Division, 9 October 1899 to 3 March 2000; Brigade Major, 1 May 1900 to 19 November 1900; also served as Adjutant to Kimberley Mounted Corps, 4 March 1900 to 30 April 1900; 1st Dragoon Guards, 10 February 1901 to July 1901; employed with Brabant’s Horse, and as Commandant, Middleburg. 2 January 1901 to 5 February 1901. Advance on Kimberley, including actions at Belmont, Enslin, Modder River and Magersfontein. Relief of Mafeking, and operations in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, to 29 November 1900. (Despatches London Gazette 16 April 1901).

For his services in the Great War he was awarded the C.B. (
London Gazette 1919); C.M.G. (London Gazette 1916); Mentioned in Despatches three times (London Gazette 1 January 1916, 11 December 1917 and 5 July 1919).