The Bernard Harris Collection of Medals to the 4th Regiment, South African Infantry

Six: Lance-Corporal A. B. Weir, 4th Regiment, South African Infantry, later Flight Sergeant, South African Air Force, who died in service on 2 September 1945

1914-15 Star (Pte. A. B. Weir Rand Rfls.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (L/Cpl. A. B. Weir. 4th S.A.I.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, these all officially impressed ‘95291 A. B. Weir’, mounted court-style for display together with the recipient’s wife’s Africa Service Medal, this officially impressed ‘W223366 M. E. Weir’; and the recipient’s Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘SA 9074’, good very fine (7) £80-£100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Bernard Harris Collection of Medals to the 4th Regiment, South African Infantry.

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Alexander Black Weir attested for the South African Infantry at Potchefstroom on 21 August 1915. Posted to France 26 July 1916, his records state that he was discharged from the 4th Regiment at Wynberg in consequence of being no longer physically fit on 10 January 1917. Unperturbed, he re-attested for the South African Infantry at Johannesburg on 23 January 1918, and returned to France from 5 March 1918; reported as wounded in action on 12 April 1918 and 23 August 1918, he disembarked at Cape Town in April 1918 and was discharged for a second time on 25 May 1919.

Weir later returned to service with the South African Air Force from 20 April 1940. Remustered as a safety equipment worker (aircraft) from 1 January 1942, he qualified as a parachute inspector in July 1943 and died of natural causes on 2 September 1918 following the cessation of hostilities in Europe. He is buried under a C.W.G.C. headstone in Heliopolis War Cemetery, Egypt.

Sold with copied service record confirming his further entitlement to the Africa Service Medal, this being supplemented with that belonging to his wife, Millicent Ellen Weir, who served in the W.A.A.S. from 6 March 1941 to 20 August 1947, and is herself further entitled to the War Medal 1939-45.