Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-97, 2 clasps, Transkei, Basutoland (Pte: A. C. Maytham. Queenstown Burghers.) impressed ‘Cape style’ by Messrs Sceales and Armstrong, a few letters double-struck, suspension claw re-affixed and suspension repaired so no longer swivels, generally very fine £300-£400

Albert Maytham was born in the Eastern Cape in 1862 and joined the Queenstown Burghers (or Volunteers) at Qumbu, Basutoland, on 8 February 1881, seeing active service during both the Basuto Gun War, and the Transkei Campaign.

In later life Maytham served on the East London City Council from 1904 to 1907, and then moved to Johannesburg, where he founded Maytham’s Ltd., the forerunner to the word-renowned company ‘Metal Box’. He died in Johannesburg on 17 November 1932.

Sold with copied medal roll extracts and other research.