Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Eight: Lieutenant and Quartermaster E. Simmonds, Royal Durban Light Infantry, late Army Service Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (100 Pte. E. Simmonds. A.S.C.); Natal 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (Sgt: E. Simmonds, Durban Light Infantry.); 1914-15 Star (Sjt. E. Simmonds 1st Infantry.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Sjt. E. Simmonds 1st Infantry.); Jubilee 1935 (44581 W.O. II. E. Simmonds. R.D.L.I.) contemporarily engraved naming; Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal, G.V.R. (No. F.2353. Sgt. E. Simmonds. 1st. Infy. (D.L.I.)); Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration, G.V.R., the reverse engraved ‘Lieut. & Q.Mr. E. Simmonds, 2 R.D.L.I.’, with integral top riband bar, mounted for wear in this order, traces of lacquer, light contact marks, very fine and better (8) £600-£800

City Coins, September 2003.

Ernest Simmonds was awarded his Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal in February 1921 and the corresponding Officer’s Decoration in mid-1938. He is included in a group photograph illustrated in the official unit history ‘The Durban Light Infantry’ by A. C. Martin.