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

Five: Battery Quarter Master Serjeant T. H. Page, Canadian Field Artillery, late Royal Garrison Artillery

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (18419 Gnr., 2nd W.D., R.G.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (18419 Bombr., R.G.A.); 1914-15 Star (84176 Gnr., Can. Fd. Art.); British War and Victory Medals (84175 B.Q.M. Sjt., C.F.A.) minor contact marks and edge bruising to first two, good very fine and better (5) £140-180

Thomas Henry Page was born on 26 August 1878 in Barnstaple, Devonshire. An engine cleaner by occupation, he attested for the Royal Artillery on 27 January 1897, aged 18 years, 5 months. He served in the South African War between February 1900 and February 1902 and was transferred to the Army Reserve in January 1905. Moving to Canada, he served in the 16th Battery Canadian Field Artillery Militia. He enlisted into the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force on 24 November 1914 at London, Ontario. Despatched overseas, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war in September 1915, serving with the Canadian Field Artillery. On 1 October 1917 he was admitted to the 6th Canadian Field Ambulance, transferred to the 6th Casualty Clearing Station on 9 September and thence to the 51st General Hospital at Etaples two days later, being discharged on 21 November 1917. He was discharged in London, England, with the rank of Battery Quartermaster Sergeant on 12 May 1919. Page died on 3 December 1964. Sold with Statement of Service in the Caadian Armed Forces and copied service papers.