Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, date clasps loose on riband as issued (6432 Pte A. H. Rathgeb. 35th Coy 11th Imp: Yeo:) nearly extremely fine £160-200

Albert Hauxwell Rathgeb was born in Finchley, Middlesex, in 1879, the son of John Conrad Rathgeb (clerk to importer of foreign goods, later Manager of general merchant, born Switzerland) and enlisted in the 35th (Middlesex Yeomanry) Company, Imperial Yeomanry in London on 8 January 1900. He served in South Africa during the Boer War and was engaged in the actions at Biddulphsburg, Prinsloo Surrender, and Bethlehem. The Register of Soldiers Effects and the Wynberg ‘Boer War’ Memorial notes that Corporal Rathgeb as serving with 112th Squadron, Imperial Yeomanry, when he died at Wynberg Military Hospital in August 1902.