Orders, Decorations and Medals

QUEEN'S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Talana (Lieut. C.J. Genge, RI. Dublin Fus.) extremely fine and an important officer casualty

Lieutenant Charles Jarvis Genge was mortally wounded at the battle of Talana Hill on 20th October 1899. He was the sixth son of the late R. Genge of Waterston, Dorset, and a brother of Surgeon R.E. Genge, Army Medical Staff, who was killed in 1899 by an avalanche in Kashmir. Born in 1877, he was educated at Weymouth College, where he was in the school rifle team. He entered the 2nd Bn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers from the 5th Bn. in January 1899, and was serving in Natal on the outbreak of the war. The Dublins had two officers killed at Talana and three wounded; and amongst the ranks four killed and forty-four wounded.