Auction Catalogue

5 & 6 December 2018

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№ 837

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6 December 2018

Hammer Price:
£340

Six: Acting Company Sergeant Major P. Daniels, Highland Light Infantry, late Royal Scots, who was wounded in action during the Battle of the Somme, and received a Secretary of State for War’s ‘Mention’

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (8198 Pte. P. Daniels, Royal Scots); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (8198 Pte. P. Daniels. Rl: Scots.); 1914 Star (8945 Sjt. P. Daniel [sic]. 2/High: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (8945 Sjt. P. Daniel [sic]. H.L.I.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (8945 C.Sjt. -A.C.S.Mjr.- P. Daniels. High. L.I.) contact marks and edge bruising to the Boer War awards, these fine, the rest nearly very fine (6) £340-£380

Peter Daniels attested for the Royal Scots, and served with the 3rd Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War. He transferred to the Highland Light Infantry prior to October 1910, and was posted to the 9th Battalion on 9 June 1914. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 5 November 1914, and was wounded in action during the Battle of the Somme- most likely at High Wood on 15 July 1917, when the battalion was virtually wiped out (Highland Light Infantry Chronicle for October 1916 refers). For his services during the Great War his name was brought to the notice of the Secretary of State for War ‘for valuable services rendered in connection with the War’ (War Office announcement, 28 August 1919 refers), this latter award being when he was serving as Acting Company Sergeant Major of the 4th Battalion.

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