Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration, G.V.R., silver and silver-gilt, hallmarks for Birmingham 1913, reverse officially impressed ‘Captain H. Read 46th Regiment’, with integral top riband bar, very fine £120-£160

O.B.E. London Gazette 9 September 1918.

Hector Read was born in Canada in 1868 and attested for the 46th Regiment, Canadian Militia. Following the outbreak of the Boer War he volunteered for service with the Royal Canadian Artillery, and served with “D” Battery in South Africa from 4 January 1900 to 10 January 1901 (entitled to the Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasps Cape Colony, Orange Free State, and Belfast). He was commissioned Lieutenant in the Canadian Militia whilst working with the West Africa Frontier Force on 4 April 1902, and was appointed Paymaster and Quartermaster on 4 April 1903. He was promoted Captain in 1914, and for his services during the Great War attached to the West African Frontier Force was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

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