Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Sergeant W. C. Rogers, South African Constabulary, later Royal Fusiliers, Northumberland Fusiliers, and Royal Air Force

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (1195 Tpr: W. C. Rogers. S.A.C.); 1914-15 Star (403 Sjt. W. C. Rogers. R. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (403 Sjt. C. [sic] Rogers. North’d Fus.) staining to reverse of star, otherwise about very fine (4) £140-£180

Note: The recipient has two Medal Index Cards fro the Great War (hence why his unit is different on the British War and Victory Medal pair from the Star). The first, for the issue of the 1914-15 Star, lists him as 403 Sergeant W. C. Rogers, Royal Fusiliers, later 139774 Sergeant, Royal Flying Corps; the second, for the British War and Victory Medals, lists him as 403 Sergeant C. Rogers, Northumberland Fusiliers, later 139774 Sergeant, Royal Air Force.