Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant D. D. Brown, Waikato Regiment, late 7th New Zealand Mounted Rifles

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (4503 Tpr: D. D. Brown 7th N. Z’land M.R.); New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal, 3rd issue, by Dibble, London, silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1964, edge re-engraved, ‘Lieut. D. D. Brown 16 Waikato 1917’, very fine and better (2) £160-200

David Daniel Brown, an unemployed miner from Blackstone Hill and a member of the Palmerstone South Rifles, attested for the 5th Contingent of New Zealand troops for South Africa at Wellington on 3 April 1900, aged 22 years, 8 months. He served in South Africa with the 7th New Zealand Mounted Rifles. He was injured in a fall from a horse at Newcastle, Natal on 25 September 1901 - resulting in a fractured collarbone and nose. At Heilbron, South Africa, on 11 February 1902 he was charged with hesitating to comply with an order and using threatening language to the Military Police. Being discharged having completed his period of service, he lived at 19 Jackson Street, St. Kilda, Dunedin.

Sold with a quantity of copied service papers relating to his service in South Africa.

Note: The New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal was made obsolete in 1931. The 3rd issue, manufactured by William Dibble of Gerrards, London in the 1950’s and 1960’s, were ‘intended primarily as replacement medals, most were sold to collectors with SPECIMEN impressed on the rim’ (ref. Orders, Decorations and Medals awarded to New Zealanders, by Oldham and Delahunt). The award of this medal to Brown is not confirmed.