Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Staff Sergeant C. S. A. Brooks, South African Pay Corps, late South African Heavy Artillery

British War Medal 1914-20 (S./Sjt. C. S. A. Brooks, S.A.P.C.); Bilingual Victory Medal 1914-19 (Gnr. C. S. A. Brooks, S.A.H.A.

British War and Bilingual Victory Medal pairs (3) (Gnr. J. Ibbotson, S.A.H.A.; Pte. J. Draaier, 1st C.C.; Sjt. C. E. Shackle, 2nd C.C.), good very fine and better (8) £120-160

Cecil Sydney Augustus Brooks was born in Kimberley and was educated at St. George’s Grammar School, Cape Town. Enlisting in the South Africa Heavy Artillery in August 1915, he was posted to 73rd Battery, S.A.H.A. and served in France from April to July 1916, when he was invalided home as a consequence of illness. Having then served in the South African Pay Corps, he was discharged in July 1918; sold with copied service record.

James Ibbotson appears to have enlisted in the South African Expeditionary in August 1915; he was discharged in the U.K. in June 1919, where he had a sister living in Staffordshire; sold with copied medal issuance references and brief service details.

John Draaier was taken on the strength of the 1st Battalion, Cape Corps in May 1918, and embarked for Egypt in August. He was discharged back in South Africa in May 1919; sold with copied medal issuance reference sheet.

Charles Ewing Shackle was born in Jersey, the Channel Islands and enlisted in the 2nd Battalion, Cape Corps in Cape Town in July 1917, aged 20 years. Having then served overseas, he was discharged at Wynberg in January 1919; sold with copied attestation and discharge papers.