Auction Catalogue

2 April 2004

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1562

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2 April 2004

Hammer Price:
£70

Boer War Presentation Silver Hip-Flask, comprising an 8oz. fluid (half-bottle) flask, silver (Hallmarks for London, 1862), with engraved initials ‘AHMJ’ and inscription, ‘Presented by Friends in the Faculty of Advocates, February 1900’, and later engraved initials of a grandson, ‘LHJ’ and on reverse ‘L. H. Jamieson, Royal Engineers, 1961’, approx 100 by 150mm., several dents £100-150

Alexander Harvey Morro Jamieson served with the 6th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry during the Boer War and was slightly wounded at Klipfontein on 17 June 1901, while attached to the 3rd Battalion. Subsequent service in the Royal Garrison Artillery in the Great War gained him elevation to the rank of Honorary Major, an O.B.E. and two ‘mentions’ (London Gazette 11 June 1918 and 5 June 1919).