Orders, Decorations and Medals

Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-97, 1 clasp, Bechuanaland (Sur. Capt. W. Darley-Hartley, Kaff. Rif.) minor contact marks, good very fine £300-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick.

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William Hartley-Darley was born Sheffield in 1854. He was educated at Sheffield Grammar School and Guy’s Hospital and qualified as a M.D. and M.R.C.P. Settling in the Cape Colony in 1879, he practiced at East London, Cathcart and Cape Town. He served as Civil Surgeon in the Gaika-Galeka and Zulu campaigns (medal and clasp), and as Surgeon-Captain with the Kaffrarian Rifles in the Langeburg campaign (medal and clasp), and as Civil Surgeon in the Boer War (Queen’s and King’s medals). He was a Life Member of the St. John Ambulance Association and served as a Town Councillor of East London and was member of the Cape Medical Council.