Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private H. T. Power, 12th Mounted Infantry and 1st South African Infantry, late M.R.F.

British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Rhodesia 1896 (Troopr., M.R.F.); 1914-15 Star (Pte., 12th M.R.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Pte., 1st S.A.I.); Bi-lingual Victory Medal 1914-19 (Pte., 12th M.R.) the first with contact marks and edge bruising, good fine, the remainder generally very fine (4) £160-180

Henry Thomas Power, who was born in Waterford, Ireland, served in Colonel Plumer’s column of the M.R.F. from April to December 1896, in ‘C’ Company, No. 8 Troop, and was present at several engagements, including Ungasie River and the last action fought in the Matopo Hills on 5 August 1896. Re-enlisting in the South African Army in the Great War, he served in German South-West Africa as a Private in the 12th Mounted (Krugersdorp) Rifles in 1915, and latterly in the 1st South African Infantry, his service records confirming that he arrived in England in July 1917. Power was finally discharged back in South Africa in December 1919.

Sold with a copy photograph of miners at the “Broken Hill Christmas Festival” in 1903, among them a man called “Paddy” Power, but more recent research would suggest this might be another man.