Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Staff Sergeant C. S. A. Brooks, South African Pay Corps, late South African Heavy Artillery

British War Medal 1914-20 (S./Sjt. C. S. A. Brooks, S.A.P.C.); Bilingual Victory Medal 1914-19 (Gnr. C. S. A. Brooks, S.A.H.A.), good very fine

Pair: Gunner J. Ibbotson, South African Heavy Artillery

British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Gnr. J. Ibbotson, S.A.H.A.), together with remnants of identity disc, good very fine (4) £80-100

Cecil Sydney Augustus Brooks was born in Kimberley and was educated at St. George’s Grammar School, Cape Town. Enlisting in the South Africa Heavy Artillery in August 1915, he was posted to 73rd Battery, S.A.H.A. and served in France from April to July 1916, when he was invalided home as a consequence of illness. Having then served in the South African Pay Corps, he was discharged in July 1918; sold with copied service record.

James Ibbotson appears to have enlisted in the South African Expeditionary in August 1915; he was discharged in the U.K. in June 1919, where he had a sister living in Staffordshire; sold with copied medal issuance references and brief service details.