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Auction: 17001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 193

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An interesting Boer War and Great War campaign group of five awarded to Capt. Hon. A. E. H. Eliott, Army Service Corps, late South African Mounted Infantry Force: in later life an actor and the founder of the Punch Club, he reckoned he had 'eighty jobs in sixty years'

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901 (Lieut. A. E. H. Eliot, S.A.M.I.F.); King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasp, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Capt. A. E. H. Eliot, S.A.M.I.F.), renamed; 1914 Star, with copy clasp (Lieut. A. E. H. Eliot, A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. A. E. H. Eliot), cleaned and lacquered, otherwise very fine and better (5)

Arthur Ernest Henry Eliot was born in Brompton, London on 13 July 1874, younger son of Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. Charles George Cornwallis Eliot. Educated at H.M.S. Britannia and Charterhouse, he enlisted as a Trooper in the South African Mounted Infantry and served in the Boer War, latterly as a Captain and Assistant Provost Marshal in Cape Colony (Queen's Medal & 2 clasps).

Commissioned in the Army Service Corps on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he was attached to the Lahore Division in B.E.F. in France in mid-September. His Who's Who entry states that he afterwards served as a military representative in the City of London 1916-1918.

The same source reveals that he was founder of the Punch Club and that he 'acted with the late Sir Charles Wyndham for some time and latterly was Lessee and Manager of the Opera Comique Theatre and Globe Theatre, London'; his acting career extended to an appearance as a trader in the 1936 film, 'Songs of Freedom', starring Paul Robeson.

Eliot, who otherwise enjoyed 'inventing hors-d'oeuvre', died in October 1936; sold with copied research.


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Sale 17001 Notices
The Lot is accompanied with a Spink & Son glazed wooden presentation case.