Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An highly unusual Boer War pair awarded to Conductor R. W. Manley, Army Service Corps, late Driscoll’s Scouts

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Wepener, Transvaal, Wittebergen (416 Serjt. R. W. Manley. Driscoll’s Scouts.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, no clasp (Condr. R. W. Manley. A.S.C.) good very fine (2) £400-£500

R. W. Manley attested into Driscoll’s Scouts on 19 March 1900 and served during the Boer War as a Transport Sergeant. He was discharged on 30 November 1901 and reenlisted into the Army Service Corps, serving as a Conductor.

Sold with copied medal roll extracts confirming all clasps on his Queen’s South Africa Medal together with further entitlement to a ‘South Africa 1901’ clasp, and confirmation of the award of a no clasp King’s South Africa medal. Highly unusual.