Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (6200 Pte. C. V. Thorpe, 2 D. of C. Lt. Infy.) unofficial connection to last clasp; with Cornwall Yeomanry Volunteers Tribute Medal, silver and enamel, reverse inscribed, ‘C. V. Thorpe, Special Service Co. South Africa’, ring suspension, ref Hibbard A9; together with three ornate Madras Volunteer Guards shooting badges, pin-backed: bronze, inscribed, ‘3rd Championship Sergt. C. V. Thorps, “B” Compy. 1905, won with 220 points; another, silver, inscribed, ‘Rifle Meeting 1906 The Championship Aggregate won by Sgt. C. V. Thorpe’; another, ‘Challenge Shield’, inscribed, ‘Col. Sgt. Thorpe C. V., won with 47 points’, good very fine (5) £600-800

Served in the Volunteer Service Company, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry during the Boer War. With copied roll extract for stated clasps.