Pair: Doctor A. H. Watkins, Kimberley Town Guard

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Kimberley (Doctor A. H. Watkins. Kimb: Town Guard.) officially re-impressed naming; Mayor of Kimberley’s Star 1899-1900, reverse hallmark with date letter ‘a’, complete with integral top ribbon brooch, toned, extremely fine (2) £600-£800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Boer War Medals to Medical Services, the Church and the Press.

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M.I.D. London Gazette 8 May 1900 (Kekewich, Kimberley, 15 February 1900).

Arnold Hirst Watkins was one of the 9 Civilian Medical Officers under siege in Kimberley whose Q.S.A.s were issued off a roll signed by Kekewich in London on 2 September 1902. Both Watkins and Doctor J. E. Mackenzie were mentioned for their “energy and zeal” when they went out with an ambulance party after dark on 29 November (Carter’s Ridge skirmish when Colonel Scott-Turner was killed) to minister to the needs of the wounded.