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

№ 1215

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23 June 2005

Hammer Price:
£900

A Great War M.C. group of seven to Major A. King, Royal Scots Fusiliers, late South African Constabulary and Transvaal Scottish

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; Queen’s South Africa 1899-19022 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (861 2nd Cl. Tpr., S.A.C.); 1914-15 Star (Capt., 8th Infantry); British War and Victory Medals; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, good very fine and better (7) £900-1000

M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1919.

Albert King was born in Wineham, Shermanbury, Sussex on 29 September 1880. A clerk by occupation, he enlisted into the South African Constabulary in January 1901, aged 20 years, he was discharged as a Corporal in March 1904 as time expired. He was then employed in the Government Service as Chief Clerk of Agriculture but was pensioned before the onset of war. In the Great War, King served as a Temporary Captain with the 2nd Transvaal Scottish in German South West Africa, October 1914-August 1915. In April 1916 he took up a commission in the 2nd Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers and entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 5 September 1916. he attained the rank of Major on 26 May 1918 and relinquished his rank on demobilization in September 1919. Major King M.C. was awarded the Jubilee Medal 1935 as a ‘Planter, Member of the Sisal Cess Board representing Southern Province Sisal Growers Association’ and the Coronation Medal 1937 as ‘Member of the Legislative Council, T.T.’ Sold with a quantity of copied service papers and research.