Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Major E. A. Lang, Durham Light Infantry and Army Pay Department

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (Capt., Durham L.I.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Capt., Durham L.I.); British War Medal (Major) together with a magnificent Limoges armorial quaich, approximately 165mm diameter at base and 140mm in height, the three handles and rim richly gilded, the body embelished in gilt with two armorial crests and the badge of the D.L.I., the base inscribed ‘A. K. Lang, May 1916’, good very fine (4) £400-500

Eustace Arthur Lang served in the Boer War, as Captain & Paymaster with the Durham Light Infantry, in operations in Natal, including action at Laing’s Nek, and in the Transvaal, November 1900 to April 1902. He served during the Great War as a Major in the Royal Army Pay Department, the British War Medal being his sole entitlement. These medals form part of a family group, see Lots 1082 and 1149.