Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Private T. J. Law, Devonshire Regiment, late East Surrey Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (2417 Pte. T. J. Law, E. Surrey Regt.); 1914 Star, with clasp (7318 Pte. T. J. Law, 1/Devon. R.); British War and Victory Medals (7318 Pte. T. J. Law, Devon. R.), contact marks, nearly very fine and better (4) £240-280

Thomas J. Law first served in ‘B’ Company, 4th (Militia) Battalion, East Surrey Regiment in the Boer War and was present with the
Namaqualand Field Force in the relief of O’okiep operations; see Brian Kieran’s O’okiep for further details.

Subsequently re-enlisting as a Private in the Devonshire Regiment, he arrived in France on 22 August 1914, where the Battalion first went into action in the following month and took heavy casualties in the fighting at Givenchy in October; sold with copied MIC entry which confirms that he was ‘discharged’.