Auction Catalogue

12 May 2015

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Lot

№ 409

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12 May 2015

Hammer Price:
£2,400

A fine Boer War D.C.M. awarded to Private J. M. Haines, Cape Mounted Rifles, for ‘conspicuous gallantry in the capture of Lotter’s Commando’

Distinguished Conduct Medal, E.VII.R. (Pte. J. M. Haines, Cape M.R.) some edge bruising and contact marks, very fine
£1400-1800

D.C.M. 11 October 1901; details London Gazette 3 December 1901:

‘For conspicuous gallantry in the capture of Lotter’s Commando near Pietersburg, Cape Colony, on 5th September 1901.’

For this action the D.C.M. was awarded to Private Haines, Cape Mounted Rifles and Sergeants Beckett and Cook of the 9th Lancers (see lots 467 and 468).

Haines was entitled to the Queen’s medal with four clasps for Cape Colony, Wepener, Transvaal and Wittebergen and the King’s medal with two clasps. Six D.C.M’s. were given to men of the Cape Mounted Rifles for services during the Second Boer War.