Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Battery Quartermaster Serjeant J. G. J. Lucas, Royal Field Artillery

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith, Belfast, Orange Free State 57738 Sgt., 42nd Bty. R.F.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (57738 Serjt., R.F.A.); 1914-15 Star (37590 B.Q.M. Sjt., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (37580 B.Q.M. Sjt., R.A.) first two with contact marks, nearly very fine and better (5) £350-400

Jesse G. J. Lucas served as a Sergeant in the Boer War, firstly with the 42nd Battery and latterly with the 17th Battery R.F.A. In the Great War as B.Q.M.S. in the R.F.A. he entered France on 19 May 1915. With copied roll extracts and m.i.c.