Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private F. E. Trickett, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons, later Acting Company Quartermaster Sergeant, 72nd Canadian Infantry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (3894. Pte. F. Trickett. 6/Drgns.) engraved naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3894 Pte. F. E. Trickett. Innis: Drgns:); British War and Victory Medals (116266 A.C.Q.M. Sjt. F. E. Trickett. 72-Can. Inf.) contact marks and minor edge bruising, polished, nearly very fine (4) £240-£280

Frederick Ernest Trickett was born in Notting Hill, London, on 22 July 1879 and attested for the Dragoons of the Line in London on 13 June 1898. Posted to the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons, he served with them in South Africa during the Boer War from 23 November 1899 to 4 December 1902, and was discharged at his own request on 14 January 1903.

Emigrating to Canada, Trickett attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Vancouver, British Columbia, on 28 May 1915, and served with the 72nd Canadian Infantry during the Great War on the Western Front, rising to the rank of Acting Company Quartermaster Sergeant.

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