Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private J. J. Spearing, 6th Dragoon Guards, who served during the Great War as a Company Quartermaster Sergeant in the Royal Engineers, and was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal in 1919

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Orange Free State, Transvaal (3101 Pte. J. J. Spearing. 6 D. Gds.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3101 Pte. J. J. Spearing. 6 D. Gds.) numbers partially officially corrected on both, light contact marks, very fine (2) £140-£180

M.S.M. London Gazette 30 May 1919.

James Joseph Spearing was born in Westminster in 1870 and served with the 6th Dragoon Guards in South Africa during the Boer War. He was discharged, time expired, on 24 July 1902. Following the outbreak of the Great War he enlisted at Finsbury, on 12 October 1914, and served as Company Quartermaster Sergeant of the 90th Field Company Royal Engineers. He only appears to have served ‘at Home’ during the Great War, and his sole medallic entitlement for the Great War was the Meritorious Service Medal. He was released from service in March 1919.

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