Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Lieutenant O. Mowatt, 10th Hussars, late Imperial Yeomanry, who died of wounds in France on 22 April 1917

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal Lieut., 50/Co. Imp. Yeo.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Lieut., I.Y.) mounted as worn, in Spink, London red leather case bearing the initials, ‘O.M’, first with slight edge bruise, otherwise nearly extremely fine (2) £400-500

Osmond Mowatt was the son of James and Fanny Mowatt of Kingswood Firs, Bramshott, Hampshire. Served in the Boer War with the Imperial Yeomanry. Served as a Lieutenant firstly with the 50th (Hampshire) Company, 17th Battalion and then the 11th Battalion. An undergraduate at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, he gained a B.A. in 1903 and a M.A. in 1904. He became an underwriting member of Lloyds. In the Great War he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 10th Hussars in November 1914. As Lieutenant with the same unit he died of wounds on 22 April 1917, aged 36 years. He was buried in the Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun, Pas de Calais. With some copied research.