Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant F. L. Fryer, Grenadier Guards, killed in action in the assault on Gun Hill at the battle of Belmont in November 1899

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Belmont (Lieut: & Adjt: F. L. Fryer, Gren: Gds:) officially impressed naming; Jubilee 1897, unnamed, this good very fine, the first extremely fine (2) £2800-3200

Francis Lyall Fryer, Grenadier Guards, was killed in action at Belmont on 23 November 1899. He was a son of Sir Frederick Fryer, K.C.S.I., Indian Civil Service, and was born in August 1873. He was educated at Charterhouse and entered the King’s Own Scottish Borderers in November 1892. He was transferred to the Grenadier Guards in January 1893, and promoted to Lieutenant in March 1897. Lieutenant Fryer was Adjutant of the 3rd battalion of his regiment at the time of his death, and fell while leading some of the men of his battalion. Sir H. Colville, in his report, states: ‘During the assault on Gun Hill, Lieut. and Adjt. Fryer, who was leading the men with extraordinary gallantry, was killed.’ His name is inscribed on the tablet in the War Memorial Cloister at Charterhouse.

Lieutenant Fryer was the only Grenadier officer to be killed at Belmont, the regiment’s first action in the Boer War.

For the medals awarded to his father and his brother see Lots 711 and 744.