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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 761

(x) Scottish Horse

A rare 'raised dates' Queen's South Africa Medal pair awarded to Private W. F. Hunter, Scottish Horse, who was awarded the Military Medal during the Great War, whilst attached to S.A. Railways Overseas Dominion Section

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (44910 Tpr. W. F. Hunter. 2nd. Scottish Horse), a 'raised dates' striking; British War Medal 1914-20 (Sjt. W. F. Hunter. S.A.R.O.D.S.), the first renamed with privately engraved details, edge nicks, very fine (2)

Provenance:

Spink, June 1989.

William Fraser Hunter was born at Forfar, Scotland, about 1883 and witnessed six months of service with the Scottish Horse and a further year with the Natal Border Police in South Africa. Attesting for the 1st Section South African Railways at Johannesburg on 4 December 1916, he was appointed 1st Grade Shunter and embarked at Cape Town aboard the S.S. Barambah on 29 January 1917 - his service records noting previous employment with the South African Railways and home address as '120 Railway Street, Germiston, Transvaal'. Awarded the Military Medal for service on the Western Front (London Gazette 28 January 1918, refers), Hunter returned home aboard the S.S. Bellerophon on 30 May 1919, being discharged on 28 June 1919; sold with copied service record confirming entitlement to Victory Medal, issued on 13 March 1922.

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Sold for
£320