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

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (Lieutenant G. M. Evans, Leicester Regt.) edge nicks, good very fine £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Leicester Regiment and Yeomanry formed by the late Trevor Harris.

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Geoffrey Maynard Evans was born in December 1883 and was commissioned into the Welsh Regiment in January 1903, following 223 days in the Militia - presumably the Leicestershire Militia in Cape Colony in April-May 1902. Advanced to Lieutenant in July 1906, he appears to have resigned his commission shortly afterwards, in order to enter the Church, but was subsequently appointed a Chaplain 4th Class in the Army Chaplains’ Department in the Great War. The winner of an M.C., he was killed in action on 11 August 1917.