Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private A. Jones, Royal Army Medical Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (14815 Pte., R.A.M.C.); 1914 Star, with copy clasp (14815 Pte., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (14815 Pte., R.A.M.C.) edge bruising, very fine (4) £140-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals for the Anglo-Boer War.

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Arthur Jones was born in Birmingham. A Labourer by occupation and a member of the 5th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment, he attested for the R.A.M.C. on 9 March 1901, aged 18 years, 9 months and served during the latter months of the Boer War. In the Great War he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war with the 8th Field Ambulance on 20 August 1914. With copied service papers and m.i.c. - entitled to the clasp to the 1914 Star.