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№ 792

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6 December 2018

Hammer Price:
£800

Family Group:

Six:
Lieutenant Wilfred Procter, King’s African Rifles, late Cape Police
Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-97, 1 clasp, Bechuanaland (192. Pte. W. Proctor [sic]. C. Pol.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Defence of Kimberley, Orange Free State (192 Cpl: W. Procter. Cape Police); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (192 Serjt: W. Procter. C.P. Dist. 2.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. W. Procter.); Mayor of Kimberley’s Star 1899-1900, reverse hallmark with date letter ‘b’, unnamed as issued, lacking integral top riband bar, toned, good very fine

Pair:
Staff Nurse Ethel Procter, née Collacott, Queen Alexandria’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve
British War and Victory Medals (S/Nurse E. Collacott.) nearly extremely fine

Pair:
Private Woodrow Proctor, 3rd Natal Scottish Battalion, Union Defence Force
War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, officially named ‘119289 W. Proctor [sic]’ good very fine (10) £700-£900

Wilfred Procter served with the Cape Police in Bechuanaland and in South Africa during the Boer War. He served during the Great War with the King’s African Rifles from 16 June 1916, and was commissioned Lieutenant on appointment as an Assistant Provost Marshal on 7 July 1917. Advanced temporary Captain on 21 December 1917, he relinquished his commission on 6 February 1919.

Ethel Procter, née Collacott, served with Queen Alexandria’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve in East Africa from 1 February 1918, and served as a Staff Nurse at No. 15 Stationary Hospital, Dar es Salaam. She subsequently married Wilfred Procter.

Woodrow Procter, the son of Lieutenant Wilfred Proctor and his wife Ethel, was born on 29 November 1921, and attested for the 3rd Natal Scottish Battalion, 1st Reserve Brigade, Union Defence Force at Durban on 19 October 1940. He was discharged, medically unfit, on 28 November 1940.

Sold with copied service papers.