Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Mockler-Ferryman, Major A.F. (Editor and Compiler), The Oxfordshire Light Infantry Chronicle (2), 1898, Vol. VII, viii, 292pp and 1900, Vol. IX, xii, 319pp, both with black and white plates, a.e.g., in green cloth, first signed ‘Vere Annersley Ball-Acton 1899’ on inside end-paper, the second inscribed to ‘Vere A. Ball-Acton, 2nd O.L.I.’, on the title page besides a photograph of the recipient, good condition (2) £40-50

2nd Lieutenant Vere Annesley Ball-Acton, Oxforshire Light Infantry, was killed in action on 18 February 1900 near Paardeberg. He was the son of Mrs Ball-Acton of Hemel Hempstead, born in April 1879 and educated at Rugby and Sandhurst. He was gazetted a 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Battalion Oxfordshire Light Infantry in February 1899. With his regiment he was present at the relief of Kimberley and the action at Klip Drift. He was shot through the head at Paardeberg, 18 February 1900. His death was was mentioned in Field Marshal Robert’s despatch of 28 February 1900 from Paardeberg. Ball-Acton is several times mentioned and twice photographed in the 1900 Chronicle.