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Auction: 9022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 60

x A Scarce ´Wepener´ Casualty Group of Five to Major E. Phelips, Worcestershire Regiment, Late Corporal Cape Mounted Rifles Queen´s South Africa 18991-902, three clasps, Cape Colony, Wepener, Transvaal (Lieut: E. Phelips, Worc: Rgt:); King´s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (Lieut: E. Phelips. Worc: Regt.); 1914-15 Star (Capt. E. Phelips. Worc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Major E. Phelips.), good very fine or better, together with a photograph of the recipient (5) Estimate £ 700-800 Major Edward Phelips, born November 1871, the son of Major-General R.H. Phelips, Indian Army; enlisted in the Cape Mounted Rifles, 1892; served as 2350 Corporal Cape Mounted Rifles during the Boer War; present at the actions at Bird River Siding, 6.2.1900, Doordrecht, 16.2.1900; Labuschagne´´s Nek, 4.3.1900, and Wepener, 9-25.4.1900; severely wounded at Wepener, 10.4.1900; on relief of Wepener sent to Deelfontein Hospital and after an operation invalided home; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Worcestershire Regiment, 12.3.1901 (a very rare instance of a soldier in the ranks of a Colonial Unit being Commissioned into a British Line Regiment); joined 5th Mounted Infantry, April 1901, and acted as Intelligence Officer to the Column from October 1901 to the end of the War, and present at operations at Kroonstadt and in the Orange River Colony; Lieutenant, 21.12.1901; Captain, 21.4.1911; served with the Regiment throughout the Great War, Major, 3.5.1916; retired, 13.4.1919.

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