Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Serjeant E. E. Humphries, Royal Garrison Artillery, attached Protectorate Regiment Frontier Force - present at the defence of Mafeking

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Orange Free State, Defence of Mafeking, Transvaal (78600 Sgt., 14 Coy. W.D., R.G.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (78600 Serjt., R.G.A.) some contact marks, very fine, clasps rare to unit (2) £1700-1900

Sergeant Ernest Edward Humphries, Royal Artillery, gained the ‘Defence of Mafeking’ clasp on attachment as Quartermaster Sergeant in the Protectorate Regiment Frontier Force. Possibly the only ‘Defence of Mafeking’ clasp awarded to the Royal Artillery. With copied roll extracts and a small photograph of the recipient.