Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Driver G. T. Gatehouse, “Q” Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, who was wounded at the Battle of Sannah’s Post on 31 March 1900, and was subsequently entered into the Ballot for the Victoria Cross

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Transvaal, Wittebergen (11482 Dr. G. T. Gatehouse, Q.B., R.H.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (11482 Dvr: G. T. Gatehouse. R.H.A.) edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £800-£1,200

G. T. Gatehouse attested for the Royal Horse Artillery, and served with “Q” Battery in South Africa during the Boer War. He was wounded at the Battle of Sannah’s Post on 31 March 1900.

Resulting from De Wet’s ambush of General Broadwood’s Brigade at Korn Spruit (Sannah’s Post), “Q” Battery Royal Horse Artillery behaved with great gallantry and managed to save four of its guns from an apparently hopeless situation. The conduct of the battery was praised by Brigadier-General Broadwood in his report on the action. As a result of this report, Lord Roberts took the unusual step of ordering the battery to ballot for the Victoria Cross, to choose one officer, one non commissioned officer, one gunner and one driver to receive the coveted award, there being no other fair way to choose four from so many who performed so heroically on that day. As a result, Major Edmund John Phipps-Hornby, Sergeant Charles Edward Haydon Parker, Gunner Isaac Lodge, and Driver Horace Henry Glasock were each awarded the Victoria Cross. Gatehouse’s name would have been in the ballot for the Victoria Cross to the ‘Driver’.