Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (12 Tpr. A. Hey Peddie D.M.T.) toned, nearly extremely fine £70-90

Adolph Hey was born in the Easter Cape in 1851 and was first employed as a Sergeant in the City Police for Grahamstown in the Albany District from 12 June 1881, before transferring as Superintendent of the Borough Police at King William’s Town on 1 January 1882. He subsequently served as Chief Constable and Messenger for the Resident Magistrate of Queenstown from March 1888, transferring in the same capacity to George in the Southern Cape in January 1891, and to Peddie in the Pondoland region of the Eastern Cape in July 1893. He served during the Boer War with the Peddie District Mounted Troops, as part of “A” Squadron, No. 1 Troop, from 27 April 1901, before resuming his police duties on the cessation of hostilities. He retired from the Police on 1 January 1908, after 28 years and 6 months’ service.