Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Rhodesia 1896, 1 clasp, Mashonaland 1897 (Lieut. A. F. A. Imbert-Terry 7th Huss) good very fine £600-£800

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

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Alexander Frederic Aimé Imbert-Terry was born on 20 February 1874, and attended the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the 7th Hussars on 21 October 1893, and promoted to Lieutenant on 6 July 1896, while he was serving in Matabeleland with the regiment. The regimental history records that on 11 June his second charger was found to be suffering from glanders and had to be destroyed. He served in Baden-Powell's column in that campaign and in November 1896 he commanded a Troop which destroyed several Kraals. He was promoted to Captain on 30 December 1899. The regiment was split in two in 1901 with half going out to South Africa and the other half remaining in the UK. Imbert-Terry was with the squadrons that remained in Britain, where he served with the 2nd Provisional Regiment of Hussars in 1902. In 1903 he married Agatha Hardy. He resigned from the army on 20 April 1907.