Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sergeant W. Gordon, 4th South African Infantry, late Imperial Yeomanry, who was killed in action near Maricourt on 5 July 1916

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (41638 Serjt., 142nd Coy. Imp. Yeo.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Sjt., 4th S.A.I.), with related Memorial Plaque (William Gordon), nearly extremely fine (3) £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to Great War Casualties formed by Tim Parsons.

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William Gordon enlisted in the Imperial Yeomanry at Edinburgh in January 1902, aged 24 years, and was posted to 142nd Company. Gaining rapid advancement to Sergeant, he served in South Africa between April and September 1902, and was discharged in Cape Colony in the latter month.

Re-enlisting at Potchefstroom in August 1915, after several years as a Policeman in the Transvaal and South African Police, he was posted to the 4th South African Infantry and arrived in France, via Egypt, in April 1916.

Gordon was killed in action on 5 July 1916 and was interred in the Peronne Road Cemetery, Maricourt; photographs of his headstone are included;together with his original memorial scroll with cardboard forwarding box.