Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Orange Free State, Transvaal (3476 Tpr: C. Haggus. Kitchener’s Horse) nearly very fine £160-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Medals Relating to Rhodesia and South Africa.

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Taken prisoner of war at De Kiel’s Drift on 13 February 1900.

‘On the 13th [February], General French, who had crossed the Riet River on the 12th, left a squadron of Kitchener’s Horse at Blaauwbosch Pan, about eight miles north-east of Dekiel’s Drift, on the Riet, in order to protect the wells until the infantry, who were following, should arrive. Unfortunately the infantry took a different course, and instead of them a large force of Boers turned up, who attacked the squadron and compelled their surrender after they had made a very creditable defence in a farmhouse for two days.’ (The Colonial in South Africa by John Stirling refers.)