Auction Catalogue

23 September 2005

Starting at 11:00 AM

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

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

Lot

№ 396

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23 September 2005

Hammer Price:
£2,400

A fine Boer War D.C.M. group of six awarded to Corporal Shoeing-Smith G. Banks, 2nd Dragoons

Distinguished Conduct Medal, E.VII.R. (4387 Pte. G. Banks, 2nd Dragoons); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (4387 Corpl. Shg.-Sth., 2nd Dragoons); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4387 Corpl.-Shg.-Sth., 2nd Drgns.); 1914 Star (9084 S.Sth.Cpl., 2/Dns.); British War and Victory Medals (GS-9084 Cpl., 2-Dns.) suspension bar slightly bent on Q.S.A., otherwise nearly extremely fine (6) £1500-2000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys).

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D.C.M. London Gazette 27 September 1901. One of five D.C.Ms awarded to the Scots Greys for service in South Africa.