Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Sergeant V. T. Harland, alias G. Snapes, 10th (Service) Battalion, Gordon Highlanders, late Scots Guards, who died of wounds on the Western Front, 15 December 1915

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (783 Pte. G. Snapes, Scots Gds.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (783 Pte. G. Snapes. Scots Guards.); 1914-15 Star (3-6886. Sjt. G. Snapes. Gord. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (3-6886 Sjt. G. Snapes. Gordons.) heavy contact marks to first two, good fine, remainder good very fine (5) £240-£280

Vivian Thomas Harland was born in Slough, Buckinghamshire. He served under the alias of ‘George Snapes’ with the Scots Guards during the Second Boer War. He married and was the husband of Mrs. E. K. Harland, of ‘Forest View’, Layton Road, Upper Parkstone, Dorset.

Harland re-enlisted under his alias at Southampton for service during the Great War, and served as a Sergeant on the Western Front with the 10th (Service) Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. He died of wounds, aged 37, on the Western Front, 15 December 1915, and is buried in St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen, France.