Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Boer War D.C.M. group of three awarded to Corporal N. Baker, Royal Field Artillery

Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (2265 Bomb: N. Baker, R.F.A.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (2265 Cpl N. Baker, 8th Batt. R.F.A.) partially officially corrected; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (2265 Corpl: N. Baker. R.F.A.) light contact marks, very fine (3) £1000-1400

D.C.M. London Gazette 19 April 1901.

Nelson Baker was born in Hailsham, Sussex, in 1875, and attested for the Royal Artillery at Eastbourne, Sussex, on 22 January 1894. He served with the Artillery in India from October 1896 until April 1898, before being invalided home, and then in South Africa with No. 8 Battery from 21 January 1900 until 10 August 1902, being promoted Corporal on 26 June 1900. For his gallantry in South Africa he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal, together with a gratuity of £20. He was discharged on 21 January 1906, after 12 years’ service, and subsequently re-attested for the Army Reserve as a Corporal on 1 February 1906, being discharged on 31 January 1910 after a further 4 years’ service.

Sold together with the recipient’s parchment certificate of discharge, which notes under description on final discharge: ‘extra row of teeth to top jaw’.