Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (7887 Tpr. A. Frew, N.Z.M.R. 9th Cont.), very fine £160-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Barrett J. Carr Collection of Boer War Medals.

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Andrew Frew, a labourer from Mosgiel, Otago, who was born in December 1880, attested for the 9th N.Z. Contingent and was embarked in the S.S. Kent in March 1902. A member of ‘A’ Squadron, he served in the Transvaal and was discharged at Wellington in August 1901; he was sent his Medal & 2 clasps in 1904.

In October 1916, Frew attested for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, direct from employment as a farm hand at Temuka. Drafted to the 1st Battalion, Canterbury Regiment and embarked for France in May 1917, he appears to have been admitted to a Field Ambulance on account of suffering from the effects of an enemy gas attack in August of the same year. Nonetheless, he rejoined his unit in the Field a few days later and died of multiple wounds on 13 December 1917; sold with copied research.