Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Jameson Raider’s group of three awarded to Captain G. V. Drury, British South Africa Police

British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Matabeleland 1893, 1 clasp, Rhodesia 1896 (Lieut., B.B. Police); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Rhodesia, Relief of Mafeking, Transvaal (Capt., B.S.A. Police); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Capt., B.S.A. Police), mounted as worn, generally good very fine (3) £1200-1500

Drury was an Inspector in the Bechuanaland Border Police prior to being attached to ‘D’ Troop, Matabeleland Mounted Police and selected for the famous Jameson Raid (The Men Who Made Rhodesia, by Colonel A. S. Hickman, refers). Subsequently appointed a Lieutenant in the British South Africa Police, he participated in the Matabeleland 1893 and Rhodesia 1896 operations, and was appointed to the command of the newly formed Barotse Native Police in North-West Rhodesia in 1899. His services in the Boer War are verified on Kaplan’s published “Relief of Mafeking” roll, in which he is stated to have have been a Captain in No. II Division, Bulawayo, B.S.A.P.