Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Orange Free State, Transvaal (2505 Tpr: H. H. M. Wells. Imp: Lt. Horse.) nearly extremely fine £240-280

H. H. M. Wells served with the 1st Imperial Light Horse in South Africa during the Boer War, and was wounded at Tiger Kloof on 18 December 1901. It was at Tiger Kloof on this day that Surgeon Captain Thomas Crean, also of the 1st Imperial Light Horse, was awarded the Victoria Cross: ‘although wounded himself, he continued to attend to the wounded in the firing line, under a very heavy fire at only 150 yards. He did not stop until hit a second time, and, as it was first thought, mortally wounded.’