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

The mounted miniature dress medal group of eight attributed to Colonel J. W. P. Peters, 7th Dragoon Guards, Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., gold and enamel, complete with gold top bar; Order of the British Empire, 1st type, Officer’s (O.B.E.) Military Division, silver-gilt; India General Service 1854-95, 3 clasps, Chin-Lushai 1889-90, Burma 1889-92, Hazara 1891; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill; 1914 Star, with clasp and silver rosette; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf, mounted as worn, good very fine and better (8) £120-160

John Weston Peters was educated at Winchester and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Commissioned into the 7th Dragoon Guards in 1885, he served in India - on Special Service in the Chin-Lushai Campaign and Superintendant of Siganlling and Provost Marshal in the Hazara 1891 Campaign. During the Boer War he was on the Staff as Brigade Major of the Cavalry Brigade, May-July 1900 and afterwards was District Commissioner of Middleberg, July-November 1900. Operations in the Orange Free State followed, including the action at Zand River and thence in Transvaal where he was present at the actions at Johannesburg, Pretoria and Diamond Hill. During the Great War he was on the Staff as Military Landing Officer (D.A.A. & Q.M.G.) 12 September 1914-2 March 1916. For his services he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (London Gazette 14 January 1916); awarded the O.B.E., and mentioned in despatches for times. Sold with some copied research details and also a bullet with gold mount and pin fitting, with a pencil note attached reading, ‘This bullet killed my horse in Pretoria in 1902.’