A Collection of Queen’s South Africa Medals to the Royal Navy

Four: Petty Officer P. Rogers, H.M.S. Terpsichore, Royal Navy, who died of disease on 28 June 1915

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901 (P. Rogers, P.O. 1Cl., H.M.S. Terpsichore.) large impressed naming; 1914-15 Star (155323, P. Rogers, P.O.1, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (155323 P. Rogers. P.O. R.N.); Memorial Plaque (Phillip Rogers) edge bruise to QSA, nearly very fine and better (5) £280-£320

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Queen’s South Africa Medals to the Royal Navy.

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Approximately 137 Queen’s South Africa Medals with clasps Cape Colony and South Africa 1901 awarded to H.M.S. Terpsichore.

Phillip Rogers was born in Northampton on 21 April 1874 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 16 April 1890. Advanced Leading Seaman on 7 May 1896, he joined H.M.S. Terpsichore on 1 May 1901 and served in her during the Boer War, being promoted Petty Officer 2nd Class on 18 May 1901, and Petty Officer 1st Class on 18 September of the same year. He was invalided on 6 October 1910.

Following the outbreak of the Great War Rogers was recalled to the service on 2 August 1914, and served in H.M.S. Hannibal from 10 October 1914 to 19 February 1915. He died of pneumonia at the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, on 28 June 1915, whilst borne on the books of H.M.S. Pembroke, and is buried under a C.W.G.C. headstone in Glasgow Western Necropolis.

Sold with a postcard photograph of the recipient; and copied service record and medal roll extracts.