Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private A. Rhodes, 6th Dragoons

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast, clasp block loose (3454. Pte. A. Rhodes. 6. Drgns.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, no clasp [sic] (3454. Pte. A. Rhodes. Innis. Drgns.); Imperial Service Medal, G.V.R., 3rd issue (Albert Fisher Rhodes) QSA and KSA planchets only and both brooch mounted to obverse; clasp block brooch mounted to reverse, nearly very fine (3) £70-90

Albert Fisher Rhodes was born at Rye, Sussex in 1875, and attested for the 6th Dragoons at Hastings on 27 June 1894. He served in South Africa from 12 January 1900 to 28 September 1902 and transferred to the Army Reserve on 29 October 1902. He re-engaged in the Army Reserve several times and in August 1914 he was mobilised and posted to the 59th Remount Squadron, Army Service Corps at Aldershot where he remained until being demobilised on 15 February 1919.