Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, B.C.A. 1899-1900 (Capt. J. H. W. Guise. Scot: Rif:) dark toned, extremely fine and unique to the regiment £1,000-£1,400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the late Roy Painter.

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Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, February 1999.

John Henry Wingfield Guise died of Blackwater fever during the operations in British Central Africa 1899-1900. He was the son of Lieut-General Sir John Charles Guise, V.C., C.B., and grandson of General Sir John Guise, G.C.B., the Peninsula hero.