Orders, Decorations and Medals

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (Capt. C. H. F. Binsteed, 1/Madras Lcrs.) good very fine, rare to regiment £400-500

Medal and clasps confirmed on roll (ref WO 100/296) signed and dated London 28 May 1901, wherein under the remarks column it states 'Served with VI Division from 1st Feby 1900 to 20th April 1900, and with 4th Cavalry Brigade from 21st April to 20th July 1900’.

Only two British Officers of 1st Madras Lancers received the medal, that to Captain Binsteed being unique to that regiment with 5 battle clasps (the other British Officer received a medal with 3 clasps).

Charles Henry Frederick Binsteed was a native of Portsea Island, Hampshire, England, where he was born on 26 March 1862. While serving as a Lieutenant with 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire Light Infantry, at Fort Camden, Cork, Ireland, he took leave to marry Consuelo Felicia De Winton at Marylebone, London, on 30 May 1884 - both being 21 years of age. Major Binsteed, who at the time was stationed at Secunderabad, Deccan, is confirmed as having died at Rajahmundry, on the Gondaveri-river, Madras Presidency, India, on 14 May 1903. With copied notes