Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant O. Mowatt, 10th Hussars, late Imperial Yeomanry, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 22 April 1917

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut. O. Mowatt. 50/Co. Imp: Yeo:) engraved naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut. O. Mowatt. I.Y.) engraved naming, mounted as worn and housed in Spink, London red leather case bearing the initials, ‘O.M’, minor edge bruise to QSA, otherwise nearly extremely fine (2) £400-£500

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2012.

Osmond Mowatt was born in Bramshott, Hampshire, and served with the Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Boer War, firstly as a Lieutenant with the 50th (Hampshire) Company, 17th Battalion and then with the 11th Battalion. Subsequently an undergraduate at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, he later became an underwriting member of Lloyd’s. He served as a Second Lieutenant with the 10th Hussars during the Great War on the Western Front from 4 November 1914, and having been promoted Lieutenant died of wounds on 22 April 1917, aged 36 years. He is buried in Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun, France.

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