Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Major P. C. H. Gordon, R.A.M.C.) nearly extremely fine £160-180

Philip Cecil Harcourt Gordon was born in Kensington, London, on 17 January 1864. He was appointed Surgeon in the Army Medical Department on 1 August 1885, becoming Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps in August 1897; Lieutenant-Colonel, August 1905; Colonel, March 1915. He served in the Burmese expedition 1885-89 (Despatches London Gazette 2 September 1887; medal with 2 clasps); and during the South African War, 1901-02, including operations in the Transvaal, May 1901 to May 1902, and in Orange River Colony and Cape Colony in May 1901 (Queen’s medal with 3 clasps).