Auction Catalogue

5 & 6 December 2018

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Lot

№ 820

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6 December 2018

Hammer Price:
£200

Four: Driver E. Vine, Royal Horse Artillery, later Army Service Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein (12702 Dvr: E. Vine, T Bty: R.H.A.); 1914 Star, with later slide clasp (MS-3318 Pte. E. Vine. A.S.C.); British War Medal 1914-20, naming erased; Victory Medal 1914-19 (MS-3318 Pte. E. Vine. A.S.C.) naming on last officially re-impressed, edge bruising, nearly very fine (4) £180-£220

Ernest Vine was bon in Fulham, London, in 1879 and attested for the Royal Horse Artillery. He served with ‘T’ Battery in South Africa during the Boer War, and was invalided home on 21 June 1900. Following the outbreak of the Great War he attested for the Army Service Corps on 7 August 1914, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 5 October 1914, being invalided back to the U.K. suffering from influenza in December 1918. He transferred to Class ‘Z’ Army Reserve on 11 March 1919.

Sold with copied service papers, medal roll extracts, and Medal Index Card, which confirms the clasp to the 1914 Star.