Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (Lieut: R. F. Westmacott. 77th. Foot.) minor edge nicks, good very fine and rare £600-£800

Provenance: Glendining’s, October 1978. Westmacott is confirmed on the roll for the South Africa medal but is not entitled to the clasp.

Ruscombe Field Westmacott was born on 9 September 1849 and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 77th Regiment of Foot on 9 October 1869. He was promoted Lieutenant on 28 October 1871, and served with the Regiment in the Zulu War. Promoted Captain on 23 March 1881, he served as Adjutant on the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders from 16 July 1888, and transferred to the Lancashire Fusiliers with the rank of Major on 12 March 1890. Advanced to Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel on the Retired List, he died on 21 May 1925, and is buried in Edington Churchyard, Somerset.

Sold with two postcard photographs of the recipient.