Auction Catalogue

21 September 2001

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 224

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21 September 2001

Estimate: £400–£500

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Transvaal, S.A. 1901 (4506 Cpl. R. Dalziel, 5th Dragoon Guards) very fine £400-500

Corporal R. Dalziel was wounded at Farquhar’s Farm on 30 October 1899, and wounded a second time at Piet Retief on 11 April 1901, and invalided to England in June 1901.

Second Lieutenant J. Norwood was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry at Farquhar’s Farm on 30 October 1899 when he went out from Ladysmith in charge of a small patrol of the 5th Dragoon Guards. They came under heavy fire from the enemy who were posted on a ridge in great force. The patrol, which had arrived within about 600 yards of the ridge, then retired at full speed.
It was at this time that Corporal Dalziel was wounded, Seconnd Lieutenant Norwood seeing this, galloped back about 300 yards through heavy fire, dismounted, and, picking up the fallen trooper, carried him out of fire on his back, at the same time leading his horse with one hand. The enemy kept up an incessant fire during the whole time that Second Lieutenant Norwood was carrying Corporal Dalziel. Regimental history confirms.