Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Surgeon J. W. Summerhayes, attached East Lancashire Regiment, who served as Surgeon in Charge of the Military Hospital at Brandfort, Orange River Colony

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (J. W. Summerhayes, M.D. Surgeon.) engraved naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Civ. Surgn. J. W. Summerhayes. E. Lanc. Rgt.) good very fine (2) £360-£440

James Ward Summerhayes undertook his medical training at Durham and London Universities, and prior to the Boer War was an assistant house surgeon at Nottingham General Hospital. He served during the Boer War in South Africa as a civilian surgeon in charge of the military hospital at Brandfort, Orange River Colony, and also as surgeon attached to the East Lancashire Regiment.

Sold with copied medal roll extracts and other research.