Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A rare ‘raised dates’ Q.S.A. awarded to Private C. C. Malet, Lord Strathcona’s Horse, who died during the Japanese occupation of Singapore in July 1944

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, reverse with dates in relief ‘1899 1900’, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Belfast, South Africa 1901 (635 Pte. C. C. Malet, Ld. Strathcona’s H:) inverted apostrophe as normal, extremely fine and rare £3500-4000

Approximately 50 medals with the dated reverse were issued, mostly to men of Lord Strathcona's Horse.

Cuthbert Chamberlain Malet was born at Basford, Nottinghamshire, in 1879, son of John Thomas and Elizabeth Hill Malet. He died at Singapore on 2 July 1944, aged 65, and is commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission roll of Civilian War Dead.