Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Driver W. J. J. Holthousen, South African Service Corps, late Kimberley Volunteer Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (1395 Pte., Kimberley V.R.); 1914-15 Star (Pte., 7th Infantry); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Dvr., S.A.S.C.); War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, last two officially named (65885 W. J. J. Holtshousen), very fine and better (6) £100-140

Wessel Jacobus Johannes Holtshousen was born in Kimberley on 30 May 1887. In the Boer War he served with the Kimberley Volunteer Regiment. During the Great War he served with the South African Service Corps and was based in East Africa, September 1916 - March 1917. During the latter part of the war he suffered with Malaria and Pneumonia and was discharged on 31 May 1918. In the Second World War he joined the 1st Reserve Brigade at Kimberley on 19 April 1940 and was discharged at Pretoria on 20 March 1947, at just under 60 years of age! Sold with copied service papers.