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Auction: 14003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 2

(x) A Boer War C.M.G. Pair to Colonel F.G. Hamley, Army Pay Department
a) The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Companion's (C.M.G.) breast Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, reverse centre depressed, with integral silver-gilt riband buckle
b) Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Cape Colony, Relief of Ladysmith, South Africa 1901, date clasp loose on riband (Lt: Col: F.G. Hamley, C.M.G., A.P.D.), traces of adhesive in places, good very fine (2)

C.M.G. London Gazette 23.4.1901 Major Francis Gilbert Hamley, Army Pay Department
'In recognition of service during the operations in South Africa up to the 29th November 1900.'

Colonel Francis Gilbert Hamley, C.M.G., born February 1851, the son of General Hamley, C.B.; educated at St. John's College, Auckland, New Zealand; Commissioned Lieutenant, Royal Cornwall Rangers (Militia), February 1872; transferred to the Control Department, September 1873; appointed Paymaster, Army Pay Department, September 1881; promoted Major, September 1891; Staff Paymaster, August 1896; served with the A.P.D. in South Africa, Mentioned in Sir Redvers Buller's Despatches for the Relief of Ladysmith (London Gazette 8.2.1901) and appointed a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George; advanced Lieutenant-Colonel and Chief Paymaster, 7.8.1901; Colonel, 9.5.1904; retired, 1.2.1911; died, 14.9.1918.

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