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

Three: Lieutenant-Colonel F. Kayser, 21st (Reserve) and 23rd London Regiment, late 1st Dragoon Guards

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (Lieut., 1st Dgn. Gds.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Lt-Col.); Coronation 1911 good very fine and better (3) £200-250

Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Kayser, served as a Lieutenant with the Cardigan Royal Garrison Artillery Militia before entering the the Boer War as a Lieutenant in the 1st Dragoon Guards serving with the Remounts. In 1908 he was Major with the 5th Warwickshire Howitzer Battery. At the onset of the Great War he was a Lieutenant-Colonel of the 23rd London Regiment and latterly commanded the 2/23rd battalion. In June 1916, as Lieutenant-Colonel, he commanded the 21st Reserve Battalion of the London Regiment. Sold with some copied research details, including extracts from ‘The 23rd London Regiment 1798-1919’, in which Kayser is mentioned several times.