Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An unusual German South-West Africa and East Africa operations Civil M.B.E. group of five awarded to Lieutenant T.A. Sheldon, onetime Western Province Mounted Rifles

The Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil), 1st type, silver (Hallmarks for London, 1919); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (Lt., W. Prov. M.R.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieutenant); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, these last two privately inscribed, ‘T. A. Sheldon’, the third renamed in small capitals, generally good very fine (5) £180-220

M.B.E. London Gazette 19 December 1918: ‘Thomas Aflred Sheldon, Esq., for valuable services rendered within the Union of South Africa in connection with the campaigns in German South-West Africa and German East Africa.’

Sheldon was not entitled to the King’s South Africa Medal.