Auction Catalogue

19 September 2003

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. To coincide with the OMRS Convention

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1101

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19 September 2003

Hammer Price:
£230

Six: Quarter Master and Lieutenant R. B. Holland, Royal Army Medical Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Orange Free State, Transvaal (8563 2 S. Sjt., R.A.M.C.) ; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (8563 S. Serjt., R.A.M.C.); 1914-15 Star (47296 S. Mjr., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Q.M. & Lieut.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (8563 S. Sjt., R.A.M.C.), mounted for display, slight edge bruise to second, minor contact marks, very fine and better (6) £140-180

Richard Bolster Holland was born in Co. Cork. A compounder by trade, he enlisted into the Royal Munster Fusiliers in 1887, aged 18 years. In 1888 he transferred to the King’s Royal Rifle Corps and the following year to the Medical Staff Corps. In 1898 he was appointed Lance-Serjeant in the Royal Army Medical Corps, becoming a Serjeant the following year. During the Boer War Holland served with the Guards Brigade Field Hospital, 3rd Division Staff and then on the Hospital Ship Orcana. He received a scalp wound at Elandsfontein on the 20 September 1900 but his service papers state he was ‘off duty’ at the time. He was discharged in 12 May 1909 and resumed his trade as compounder in Dublin. Holland was recalled for service in the Great War, being appointed Serjeant-Major with the R.A.M.C., entering the French theatre of war on 6 October 1915. He was later promoted Quarter-Master and Lieutenant. His precise fate is unknown, though a Quarter-Master & Lieutenant Ralph Holland, R.A.M.C. is listed as dying on 21 August 1916 and being buried at Curragh Military Cemetery, Co. Kildare, and this may possibly be the same man. Sold with copied service papers and research.