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Auction: 14002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 62

(x) A Good Boer War D.C.M. Group of Eight to Sergeant Major, Later Captain, H.E. Adams, Devonshire Regiment
a) Distinguished Conduct Medal, E.VII.R. (63 Q.M. Serjt: H.E. Adams. 4th. Devon: Regt.)
b) Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, five clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing's Nek (63 Q.M. Sgt. H.E. Adams, Devon: Regt.)
c) King's South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (63 Qr:-Mr:-Serjt: H.E. Adams. Devon Regt)
d) 1914-15 Star (Q.M. & Lieut. H.E. Adams. D.C.M. Devon: R.)
e) British War and Victory Medals (Capt. H.E. Adams.)
f) Coronation 1911
g) Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (63 Qr: Mr: Sgt. H.E. Adams. Devon R), contact marks to earlier medals, therefore nearly very fine or better, mounted court style for display purposes (8)

D.C.M. London Gazette 31.10.1902 Quartermaster-Sergeant A.E. [sic] Adams, Devonshire Regiment
'In recognition of services during the operations in South Africa.'

Captain Harry Edward Adams, D.C.M., born Colchester, Essex, 1862; enlisted in the Devonshire Regiment, August 1881; promoted Corporal, July 1882; Sergeant, December 1883; Colour Sergeant, September 1887; Quarter Master Sergeant, September 1891; awarded Long Service & Good Conduct Medal, Army Order 9 of 1900; served with the Regiment during the Boer War in South Africa from October 1899 to June 1902, awarded the D.C.M., and Mentioned in Lord Robert's Despatch of 4.9.1901 (London Gazette 10.9.1901), and Lord Kitchener's Despatch of 23.6.1902 (London Gazette 29.7.1902); promoted Sergeant Major, 5.6.1902; discharged, 8.8.1912, after 31 years with the Colours; re-employed for service during the Great War, and served with the Devonshire Regiment on the Western Front from 28.7.1915; also served briefly with the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and the Labour Corps.

Provenance: Glendining, July 1977
Spink, May 2003

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