Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Boer War Diary, by Lieutenant W. Waring, Life Guards, a typed manuscript covering the period 29 November 1899 to 29 November 1900, from their departure to their return at Southampton, 42 pp., interspersed with various original photographs, including one of the author, and various appendices, including a nominal roll of the Composite Regiment and Troop make-ups, bound in leather with 1st Life Guards crest embossed on cover, good condition £200-300

Walter Waring was born in 1876, the son of Charles Waring Esq., M.P. for Poole, and his wife Eliza, daughter of Sir George Denys, Bt., and was educated at Eton. He was commissioned into the 1st Life Guards in 1897, and served in the Boer War, for which he was Mentioned in Despatches and was awarded the Queen’s South Africa Medal with six clasps. In 1901 he married Lady Clementine Hay, the only daughter of the 10th Marquess of Tweeddale. Promoted Captain in 1904, he was elected Liberal Member of Parliament for Banffshire in 1907, and served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries between 1909-10. He served in the Yeomanry during the Great War in France and Macedonia from 1915-17, and in the Naval Intelligence Division in 1918, and for his services during the Great War he was awarded the French Legion of Honour. After the War he resumed his political career, serving as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War from 1919-22, before losing his Parliamentary seat in the 1924 General Election. He subsequently served as a Conservative Member on London County Council for East Lewisham from 1925-28, and died in 1930.