Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Boer War D.C.M. pair awarded to Colour Sergeant J. Betteley, Middlesex Regiment

Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (1595 Clr: Serjt: J. Betteley. 2nd. Middlesex Regt.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 7 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek, South Africa 1901 (1595 C. Sgt. J. Betteley, Middx: Regt.) top lugs removed, polished, very fine (2) £1200-1600

Provenance: Sotheby’s, June 1985.

D.C.M. London Gazette 27 September 1901.

J. Betteley served with the 2nd Battalion Middlesex Regiment during the Boer War, and was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal and was additionally Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 4 September 1901). He died in 1902-03.