Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part I)

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith (Lieut. J. T. Dennis, Rl. Dublin Fus.) extremely fine £800-1000

John Tracton Dennis was educated at Cheltenham College and entered the Royal Dublin Fusiliers from the Gloucestershire Royal Engineer Volunteers on 4 November 1899. He was wounded in action at Harts Hill on 24 February 1900 and subsequently died of enteric at Aliwal North on 2 May 1900. His name is inscribed on the Eleanor Cross War Memorial at Cheltenham College. Additionally entiled to the Transvaal clasp. A photograph of Dennis appears in the book, The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in The South African War, by Romer and Mainwaring.