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Auction: 26003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 137

(x) Three: Lieutenant M. Dunn, Driscoll's Scouts, late Roberts's Horse, Cape Mounted Riflemen and 2nd Life Guards

Cape of Good Hope General Service Medal 1880-97, 1 clasp, Basutoland (Tpr M. Dunn. C. M. Rifn), engraved naming; Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (2144 S: Sjt-Maj: M. C. Dunn, Roberts Horse); King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut M. Dunn. Driscoll's Scouts.), mounted as worn, light scratchings to rim of first medal, edge bruise to Q.S.A., otherwise very fine (3)

Montagu Crofton Dunn (sometimes spelt Montague Copton) was born in Cork, but spent some time in the Cape of Good Hope before he enlisted into the 2nd Life Guards at Windsor in February 1886. Curiously, eight months later, Dunn discharged from the Life Guards by purchase in October 1886. He appears again in military records as a Squadron Sergeant Major with Roberts' Horse during the Boer War, a cavalry regiment that was raised in February 1900, consisting of circa 500 men. At some point during the war, Dunn transferred to Driscoll's Scouts, a corps famed for their feats of daring do via their fast-paced commando missions.

Dunn could well be a relation to the prominent Dunn family connected to Rear Admiral Montagu Buccleuch Dunn via his sister, and famed artist, Frances Emilia Crofton, nee Dunn.

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Estimate
£500 to £600

Starting price
£400