Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2485 Pte. J. Knox. K.R.R.C.) contact marks, nearly very fine £100-140

John Knox was born in Mullinaratt, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1881 and attested for the King’s Royal Rifle Corps at Cork on 2 January 1900. Posted to the 4th Battalion, he embarked for South Africa in February 1901 and served with the 4th Company, 25th (Rifles) Mounted Infantry Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War, where it is likely that he was present at the Battle of Brakenlaagte, 30 October 1901. Leaving South Africa on 13 January 1903, he was posted to Somaliland as part of the 4th Battalion K.R.R.C. Mounted Infantry, and for his services was awarded the Africa General Service with clasps or Somaliland 1902-04 and Jidballi. He transferred to the Military Foot Police on 6 November 1907, with the rank of Lance-Corporal, and served during the Great War with the Salonika Expeditionary Force from 4 January 1916. Advanced Acting Sergeant on 29 January 1916 and Acting Regimental Sergeant-Major on 11 April 1917, he subsequently served on attachment with the Military Provost Staff Corps. For his services in the Great War he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal (London Gazette 13 February 1917), and was discharged on 1 January 1921, after 21 years’ service.

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