Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Private J. C. Rouse, Kimberley Town Guard, later Veteran Regiment, South African Forces

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Kimberley (Pte. J. C. Rouse. Kimberley Town Gd:); Mayor of Kimberley’s Star 1899-1900, reverse hallmark with date letter ‘a’, unnamed as issued, with replacement integral top riband bar; 1914-15 Star (Pte. J. C. Rouse Veteran Rgt.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (L/Cpl. J. C. Rouse. Veteran Rgt.) traces of lacquer, good very fine (5) £500-£700

Provenance: Spink, December 1983.

John Charles Rouse was born in 1860 and served with the Kimberley Town Guard during the Boer War, and with the South African Veteran Regiment during the Great War in German South West Africa from April 1915. He died in Kimberly on 8 February 1947.

Sold with copied medal roll extract and other research.