Orders, Decorations and Medals Including five Special Collections

Natal 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (Pte. M. J. R. Searle, Cape Mtd. Riflemen) nearly extremely fine £130-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Gordon Everson.

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Morton James Roberts Searle was born at Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire, on 12 May 1884, son of Captain James Searle, 4th Gloucestershire Regiment. He enlisted into the Cape Mounted Riflemen in England on 12 October 1902, aged 18, was posted to the Artillery Company and served throughout the Natal Rebellion of 1906 for which he received the medal with clasp. The services of this small contingent of some 70 officers and men, including natives, was offered by the Cape Government to help suppress the rebellion, its six maxim guns being used to great effect. Searle was discharged on 11 October 1907 after completing his 5 year engagement. At some point he emigrated to Australia, living at Coldbrook Middleton in Tasmania, and later at Mornington in the State of Victoria, where he died on 25 February 1951.