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

A fine Great War M.C. group of six awarded to Major B. T. Ward, 19th (St Pancras) Battalion, London Regiment, formerly Royal Sussex Regiment, Kimberley Rifles, and Protectorate Regiment, with whom he was present at the Defence of Mafeking

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-97, 1 clasp, Bechuanaland (Pte., Kimberley Rifles) Cape style impressed naming; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Mafeking (225 Tpr., Prot. Rgt.) officially corrected; 1914-15 Star (Capt., R. Suss. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Major) generally good very fine or better (6) £1200-1500

M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1919 (19th London Regiment).

Bertrand Thomas Ward is confirmed on the roll as serving with ‘D’ Squadron, Protectorate Regiment at the Defence of Mafeking.