Auction Catalogue

17 September 2004

Starting at 11:00 AM

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

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

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Lot

№ 776

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17 September 2004

Hammer Price:
£250

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (Capt. A. E. M. Bacon, Durham L.I.) extremely fine £150-200

Anthony Bacon was born on 14 March 1870 at Adelaide, Australia, the son of Captain Edward Bacon D.L., J.P. of Eyewood, Middlesex. Educated at Wellington College, he joined the 4th Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry in May 1888 and was promoted Lieutenant in November the same year. He was commissioned into the 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry in October 1891 and promoted Lieutenant in April 1894 and Captain on 21 October 1899. He retired in February 1902 to become a Captain in the 4th Battalion. Serving in South Africa with the 4th Battalion, he formed and commanded a Mounted Infantry Company attached to the Kimberley Horse. Appointed Hon. Major in August 1908, he resigned on 17 April 1909. During the Great War he was re-employed as a Temporary Captain in the Records Office in August 1915. Bacon died in 1940, living his later years at Bradford Peverell, near Dorchester. Sold with five copied photographs.