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18 & 19 July 2018

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Lot

№ 435

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18 July 2018

Hammer Price:
£1,500

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Wittebergen (Capt. Stanley-Clarke. 2/Co 1/Imp. Yeo.) officially engraved naming, note lack of initials, extremely fine £1400-1800

William Willoughby Stanley-Clarke, 2nd Company, 1st Battallion Imperial Yeomanry, was killed in action near Brandwater Basin on 26 August 1900 (The Last Post states Harrismith). He was the eldest son of the late Colonel Stanley Clarke, 21st Hussars, was born in 1868, and educated at Cheltenham. At the outbreak of the war Captain Clarke was engaged in tea planting in Ceylon; but volunteered for active service. His services were accepted and he was granted the rank of Captain in the army from the 6th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, in which he had served as a Captain from August 1894. His name is inscribed on the Eleanor Cross War Memorial at Cheltenham College.

For the Indian Mutiny medal awarded to his father see Lot 296.