Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Major F. J. Lawrence, King Edward’s Horse and Machine Gun Corps, late Rhodesian Field Force

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia (Lieut., Rhod. F.F.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Capt., Rhodesian F.F.);1914-15 Star (Lieut., K. Edw. H.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.), mounted court style as worn, slight edge bruising, good very fine and better (5) £400-500

Frederick John Lawrence served as a commissioned officer in the Royal Monmouthshire Militia, 1891-95. In the Boer War he was served a Lieutenant with the Rhodesian Field Force from 7 March 1900 to 29 June 1901, at which date he was promoted to Captain (Acting Press Censor) and served with the Press Censors Department in Capetown and East London until 20 September 1902. In the Great War he was appointed a Lieutenant in King Edward’s Horse on 10 August 1914, being promoted to Captain and entering the France/Flanders theatre of war on 4 May 1915. In his papers he states he received an eye injury from a shell explosion when in the trenches on 23 May 1915. Promoted to Major on 17 April 1917; he transferred to the Machine Gun Corps on 4 August 1917. Sold with copied research details; clasps confirmed.