Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant A. H. Aitken, Royal Engineers, late 10th N.Z. Contingent

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, South Africa 1901 (8518 Pte. H. A. Aitken, 1st Regt 10th N.Z. Cont.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. H. A. Aitken), initial and surname officially corrected on the last, nearly extremely fine (3) £220-260

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Barrett J. Carr Collection of Boer War Medals.

View
Collection

Alexander Hugh Aitken, a smelter from Kumara, Westland, attested for the 10th N.Z. Contingent and was embarked in the S.S. Drayton Grange in April 1902. Appointed a Veterinary Dispenser Corporal on the regimental staff of the North Island Regiment, he saw brief service prior to the end of hostilities; his Medal & single dated clasp were sent to him in 1904, care of the Waihi Gold Mining Company.

During the Great War, Aitken was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in September 1917, and went to France with 172 Tunnelling Company, R.E.; sold with copied research.