Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Captain E. G. L. Rider, South African Forces

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Africa Service Medal; War Medal 1939-45, all officially inscribed, ‘42873 E. G. L. Rider’, good very fine, together with Simonstown Naval Regatta prize medal, silver; motor-cycling medal, silver and enamel, this last engraved ‘40 Mile H’cap, P. Rider, 26.9.24’ and South African commemoratives for Jubilee / Coronation (3), all bronze (9) £15-20

Edward Grenville Lindsay Rider, who was born in May 1903, the son of the Rev. W. W. Rider, first saw military service in the 1st South African Mounted Rifles between 1922-23. Re-enlisting in May 1940, he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant and served out in East Africa as a Transport Officer between October 1940 and April 1941, attaining the rank of Acting Captain. Rider was discharged in April 1944 but not as a result of a reduction in the military establishment, as stated on his service record. He had, in fact, refused to take the new ‘General Service Oath’; he was, nonetheless, eventually permitted to retain the rank of substantive Captain; sold with further details.