Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Corporal J. T. Ross, Kimberley Town Guard, later Pietersburg Commando

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Kimberley (Cpl. J. T. Ross. Kimberley T.G.); 1914-15 Star (Pte. J. T. Ross Pietersburg Cdo.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Pte. J. T. Ross. Pietersburg Cdo.); Mayor of Kimberley’s Star 1899-1900, reverse hallmark with date letter ‘a’, the reverse contemporarily engraved ‘Cp. J. T. Poss T.G. Kimberley Defence’, lacking integral top riband bar, mounted as worn, very fine (5) £400-£500

Sold with a Siege of Kimberley ‘charm’, likely to have been manufactured during the Siege, named to ‘J. T. Ross’.