Auction Catalogue

23 June 2005

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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

Lot

№ 987 x

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23 June 2005

Hammer Price:
Withdrawn

Four: Squadron Sergeant-Major J. H. Green, South African Mounted Rifles

1914-15 Star
(Sjt., 1st S.A.M.R.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Sjt., 1st S.A.M.R.); Union of South Africa Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (No. 48 S.S.M., S.A.M.R.), this last with officially re-engraved naming, generally very fine and extremely rare (4) £200-300

John Henry Green’s Union of South Africa M.S.M. - one of just 46 such awards - was announced in the Union of South Africa Government Gazette of 25 August 1922.

He had earlier served in the Cape Police and was awarded the Cape of Good Hope General Service Medal for ‘Bechuanaland’ and the Queen’s South Africa and King’s South Africa Medals, both with two clasps, in addition to the Coronation 1902 Medal. During the Great War he served in the 1st S.A.M.R. in West Africa 1914-15.

Withdrawn