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

A Great War D.C.M. group of five to Captain E. J. Johnson, South African Engineer Corps, late Dorsetshire Regiment

Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (E-1S. Mjr., S.A.E.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith (4434 Sjt., Dorset. Rgt.); 1914-15 Star (Sjt., S.A.E.C.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaf (Capt), B.W.M. with unofficially engraved naming, good very fine and better (5) £400-500

D.C.M. London Gazette 26 May 1917: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty throughout the campaign in constantly working under fire.’

M.I.D. London Gazette 5 June 1919. (Despatches of Lieutenant-General J. L. van Deventer, Commander-in-Chief, East African Forces, for the period 1.8.1918 to the conclusion of hostilities).

Sold with copied research details which show that Sergeant-Major Johnson was taken ill with appendicitis in October 1916 and discharged as medically unfit in January 1917 at Potchefstroom. He then rejoined the same unit in June 1917.