Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Lieut. G. L. D. Brancker, S. Staff. Rgt.) nearly extremely fine £2000-2500

Grafton Lloyd Dulany Brancker was born on 23 December 1876. He joined the 1st Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment from the Militia in December 1899 and in March 1900 accompanied it to South Africa.

Arriving at Cape Town on 8 April 1900, the battalion entrained to the front, arriving at Edenburg on 15 April and took part in their first action, at Wakkerstroom on 20 April. In action again during early May at Thabanchu and Abraham’s Kraal, the regiment formed the garrison at Senekal, 26-31 May. On 14 June the regiment was sent to the town of Ficksburg to reinforce the 2nd Battalion Manchester Regiment; the town being under continuous attack. I

t was on 25 June, during a reconnaissance in force from Willow Grange Farm, near Ficksburg, that two officers, Captain Grogan and Lieutenant Brancker were killed in action. Both were interred in Ficksburg Town. During the course of the Boer War, the 1st Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment suffered 4 officers killed.