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Auction: 7022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 1275

Pair: Captain B.R.M. Glossop, 5th Dragoon Guards East and West Africa 1887-1900, two clasps, 1897-98, 1898 (Lieut. B.R.M. Glossop. 5/Drgn: Gds:); Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, five clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, South Africa 1901 (Capt. B.R.M. Glossop. 5/Drgn. Gds), nearly extremely fine, together with the related miniature awards (2) Estimate £ 700-900 M.I.D. London Gazette 23.5.1899 Lieutenant B.R.M. Glossop, 5th Dragoon Guards ´For services in connection with the West African Frontier Force on the Niger during the first year of its existence.´ Captain Bertram Robert Mitford Glossop, born September 1870; Commissioned Cornet, May 1891; Promoted Lieutenant, 1893; served during the operations in West Africa in Niger and Borgu (Mentioned in Despatches); Captain, 1899; saw action during the Boer War as Adjutant, Imperial Light Horse, and was severely wounded at Nwpoort Tran, 5.1.1901; Major, 6.8.1910; employed at Aldershot throughout the Great War; retired 30.9.1920.

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