Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Boer War D.C.M. group of three awarded to Private T. Aldridge, 19th Hussars, later Sergeant-Major, South African Constabulary

Distinguished Conduct Medal, E.VII.R. (Pte. T. Aldrdge. 19th. Hussars.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (3801. Pte: T. Aldridge. 19/Hrs.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (813 T. Sjt. Mjr. T. Aldridge. S.A.C.) contact marks and heavy edge bruising, nearly very fine (3) £1400-1800

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

Thomas Aldridge was born in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, in 1873, and attested for the 19th Hussars in London on 11 January 1892. He served with the Regiment in India from September 1895 until October 1899, and then in South Africa throughout the Boer War. He transferred to the Army Reserve in South Africa on 22 September 1902, and was discharged on attaining the rank of Sergeant on the South African Constabulary on 30 April 1903, after 11 years and 110 days’ service, and subsequently rose to the rank of Sergeant Major.