Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Rhodesia 1896, no clasp (Troopr. G. Y. Anstruther. B.S.A. Police) good very fine £380-£460

Gerald Yorke Carmichael Anstruther was born in Henley, Oxfordshire in 1871, the son of Windham George Conway Carmichael Anstruther (1845-98) and Ellen Anne Katherine, daughter of John Adam H.E.I.C.S. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and entered the insurance business with Standard Life Assurance Company, before then emigrating to South Africa as a young man where he worked as an accountant, in-between taking up arms in both the 1896 Rhodesian War and the Second Boer War. After spending about 15 years in South Africa, he finally returned home on 21 June 1910. As grandson of Sir Wyndham Frederick Carmichael-Anstruther, 10th and 7th Baronet, he was heir-presumptive to the family baronetcy but died suddenly just 7 days after returning to London. He left behind a son, Windham Eric Francis Carmichael-Anstruther, born in 1900, who succeeded to the titles in 1928.

Anstruther’s Queen’s South Africa, 2 bars, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901, as a Corporal in the Midland Mounted Rifles, was sold in these rooms in June 2024.