Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Company Sergeant-Major J. T. Gill, Monmouthshire Regiment, late South Wales Borderers, who was killed in action in the fighting on Frezenberg Ridge in May 1915

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (7660 Pte. J. Gill, S. Wales Bord.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (69 Sjt. J. T. Gill, 3/Mon. Regt.), the first with edge bruising, contact marks and polished, thus fine, the last rather better (2) £240-260

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to Welsh Regiments formed by the Late Llewellyn Lord.

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John Thomas Gill was born in Leominster, Herefordshire and enlisted in the South Wales Borderers in February 1901, aged 23 years, direct from the 3rd (Volunteer) Battalion. Drafted to the 2nd Battalion, he was immediately embarked for South Africa, where he served until June 1902.

Discharged from the Regular Army on his return home, he served as an N.C.O. in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment, in the period leading up to the Great War and he was embarked for France as a Company Sergeant-Major soon after the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914. He was subsequently killed in action in the heavy fighting on Frezenberg Ridge on 6 May 1915 and received a posthumous mention in despatches (London Gazette 22 June 1915, refers). The son of John and Jane Gill of Abertillery, Monmouthshire, he was 40 years of age and has no known grave; sold with copied research.