Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria including the collection to Naval Artificers formed by JH Deacon

Five: Warrant Officer Class 1 W. G. Burgess, Surma Valley Light Horse, late 6th Dragoon Guards and Scottish Horse

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 7 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast, South Africa 1901 (4093 Serjt., 6/D. Gds.), last clasp loose, rank officially corrected; 1914-15 Star (3156 S. Mjr., Sco. H.); British War and Victory Medals (3156 W.O. Cl.1, Sco. H.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. 1st type (Acting Sergt. Major, Surma Valley Lt. Horse), with a corresponding set of five miniature dress medals, last with minor edge bruising, good very fine (10) £320-380

Sergeant W.G. Burgess, 6th Dragoon Guards, was dangerously wounded at Nooitgedacht on 18.5.1901.