Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Major R. Anderson, South African Infantry, late Kaffrarian Rifles and Transvaal Rifles

Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-97, 1 clasp, Bechuanaland (867 Pte. R. Anderson, Kaffrn. Rifs.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Wepener, Transvaal, Wittebergen (Lieut: R. Anderson. Kaffrn: Rif:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasp, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut: R. Anderson. Kaffrn: Rif:); Natal 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (L. Cpl: R. Anderson. Transvaal Rifles) cleaned and mounted for display, good very fine and better (4) £700-£900

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2011.

Robert Anderson served in Bechuanaland as a Private in the Kaffrarian Rifles. With the same unit, he served in the Second Boer War, firstly as a Regimental Sergeant-Major, then as a Lieutenant at the defence of Wepener, April 1900. For his services during the Boer War he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 2 April 1901). He saw further service during the Natal Rebellion as a Lance-Corporal in the Transvaal Mounted Rifles, and in the Great War as a Temporary Captain with the 5th Kaffrarian Rifles, a Temporary Major with the 4th South African Infantry, and a Major with the 3rd Labour Group 117th P.O.W. Company.

Sold with an original portrait photograph of the recipient, and various copied research including the recipient’s Medal Index Card.