Orders, Decorations and Medals

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Mr. B. Gotto, “Daily Express”) good very fine and rare £1200-1500

Basil Gotto was a noted sculptor, born on 10 August 1866. He was educated at Harrow and studied Art in Paris. He entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1887 and was Landseer Scholar in 1890, first exhibiting Sculpture at the Royal Academy in 1892. He was a War Correspondent for the Daily Express newspaper during the Boer War and met with Winston Churchill on several occasions. His principal works were: Bacchus; Beggar Man; Nansicaa; Memorial to Middlesex Yeomanry, St Paul’s Cathedral; The Fighting Newfoundler and the Caribou (Newfoundland War Memorial); and the Army & Navy Club War Memorial. Basil Gotto died on 19 October 1954.