Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private R. G. Home, 1st Royal Natal Carbineers, who was wounded at Sidi Rezegh in November 1941

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal 1939-45, all officially inscribed, ‘4249 R. G. Home’, mounted as worn, good very fine

Four: Gunner H. J. Wagenaar, South African Artillery, who was wounded at Sidi Rezegh in November 1941

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal 1939-45, all officially inscribed, ‘104446 H. J. Wagenaar’, very fine


Five: Corporal R. M. A. Tomlinson, The Cape Town Highlanders, who, having witnessed active service in Madagasgar in 1942, died of illness in August1945

1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Africa Service Medal 1939-45, all officially inscribed, ‘8566 R. M. A. Tomlinson’, together with South African memorial Brooch, the reverse numbered ‘4000’, good very fine or better (14) £200-300

Robert Gordon Home, a farmer from Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg, was born in September 1910 and enlisted in the South African Army in May 1940. Posted to the 1st Royal Natal Carbineers, he was embarked for East Africa in July 1940 where, prior to his evacuation via a C.C.S. with an infected leg in the summer of 1941, he would have seen considerable action against the Italians in Somaliland and Ethiopia. Rejoining his unit in North Africa towards the end of the year, he saw further action at Sidi Rezegh and it was in these operations that he was wounded in the right arm by a grenade on 30 November 1941. Evacuated to Durban, he appears to have been discharged as a result of his wounds in December 1942; sold with copied service record.


Hermanus Johannes Wagenaar, who was born in January 1920, enlisted in the South African Army in January 1940. Posted to the South African Field Artillery, he joined the 1st Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment in May 1940, in which capacity he was severely wounded at Sidi Rezegh in November 1941. He appears to have transferred to the S.A.A.F. in January 1944 and was discharged in June 1946; sold with copied service record.


Rubin Melville Arthur Tomlinson, a taxi driver from Grahamstown, was born in August 1901 and enlisted in the South Africa Army in April 1940. Posted to the 1st Battalion, City Regiment (The Cape Town Highlanders), he was actively engaged in the capture of Madagascar from Vichy French forces in June-December 1942, prior to serving in a Motorised Battalion in the Italy campaign. Admitted to hospital in March 1945, he was transferred back to the Military Hospital at Port Elizabeth, where he died on 2 August 1945; sold with copied service record.