Auction: 11007 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 212
Six: Captain W.B. Drake [O.B.E.], South Wales Borderers, Late Devonshire Regiment, Damant´s Horse and Salisbury Horse British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, for Matabeleland 1893, one clasp, Rhodesia 1896 (Troopr. W.B. Drake. Salisbury Horse.); Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, eight clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (Lieut. W.B. Drake, Damant´s Horse), top lugs removed; King´s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (Lieut. W.B. Drake. W. Province. M.R.); 1914-15 Star (2.Lieut: W.B. Drake. Devon R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Capt. W.B. Drake.), remnants of lacquer, contact marks throughout, therefore generally very fine (6) Estimate £ 600-700 O.B.E. London Gazette 3.6.1919 Drake, Capt. William Barnard, S.W. Bord. ´For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in Mesopotamia.´ Captain William Barnard Drake, O.B.E., born 1871, the son of Sir W.H. Drake, K.C.B.; educated at Sherborne; served in the ranks, Salisbury Horse, during operations in Matabeleland; commissioned into Damant´s Horse for service during the Boer War 1899-1902; served during the Great War in the Egyptian theatre of War, 1915-16; advanced Captain 1st Battalion South Wales Borderers, 15.8.1916; served as part of Embarkation Staff, Mesopotamia, 1916-18 (O.B.E.; M.I.D. London Gazette 5.6.1919); retired 22.1.1920; resided in later life at Cotmaton House, Sidmouth, Devon.
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£2,700
