Orders, Decorations and Medals Including five Special Collections

Four: Lieutenant Colonel S. C. Long, Rifle Brigade

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (Capt. & Adjt., Rifle Bde.) 1914 Star (Major, Rif. Brig.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.) nearly extremely fine (4) £300-400

Despatches four times London Gazette 22 June 1915, 15 June 1916, 15 May 1917 and 11 December 1917.

Lieutenant Colonel S. C. Long served as Adjutant of the 1st Battalion during the Boer War, present at the Relief of Ladysmith, including action at Colenso; the actions at Val Kranz and Pieters Hill, where he was severely wounded on 23 February 1900; operations in Natal, including action at Laings Nek; and subsequent operations in Transvaal, east of Pretoria. His statement of services in the 1920 Army List suggests that he is additionally entitled to the King’s South Africa Medal.