Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to coincide with the OMRS Convention

Three: Sergeant F. A. T. Davis, South African Police, late Southern Rhodesia Volunteers

British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Rhodesia 1896, 1 clasp, Mashonaland 1897 (Tpr., B.F.F.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Rhodesia, Relief of Mafeking (226 Serjt., S. Rhod. Vols.); South African Police L.S. & G.C. (No. 649 (F) 1/C. Sergeant) contact marks, otherwise very fine (3) £450-550

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of R.W. Gould, MBE.

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Frederick Augustus Thomas Davis was born at St Martins Lane, London, on 5 November 1868. He served as a Trooper with the Bulawayo Field Force in 1896, and with the Rhodesian Horse Volunteers in 1897. He enlisted in the South African police on 22 December 1903 and retired as a First Class Sergeant on 4 November 1923. Sold with further research.