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

A ‘Defence of Kimberley’ D.S.O. group of four to Captain T. L. Angel, Kimberley Town Guard, late Kimberley Regiment
Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar; Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-97, 1 clasp, Bechuanaland (Lieut., Kimberley Regt.); Queen’s South Africa, 1 clasp, Defence of Kimberley (Capt., Kimberley Tn. Gd.); Mayor of Kimberley’s Star 1899-1900, reverse hallmark with date letter ‘a’, unnamed as issued, lacks brooch bar, good very fine and better (4) £1600-2000

Queen’s South Africa and Defence of Kimberley Star ex B.D.W. 12 May 1993.

Thomas Lombard Angel was born on 10 January 1867, the son of John Angel of Torquay, Devon. He was educated at St. Luke’s, Torquay and became a mechanical engineer. Moving to South Africa, he served with the Kimberley Regiment in the Bechuanaland campaign 1896-97, being one of the officers who crushed the Pokwani rebellion. He again saw service during the Boer War, serving as a Captain in the Kimberley Cycle Corps during the siege of Kimberley. For his services he was mentioned in despatches and created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order [London Gazette 19 April 1901]: ‘Thomas Lombard Angel, Captain, Kimberley Town Guard. In recognition of services during the operations in South Africa.’

He also received the added honour of having a street in Kimberley named after him. Again during the Great War, he served as a Captain in the Imperial Army and was later invalided home and became Assistant to the Colonel in charge of records at Lichfield (1915) and then Hounslow.