Pair: Private C. F. J. Gibson, Devonshire Regiment

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1889-92 (2561 Pte. C. F. J. Gibson, 2d Bn. Devonshire Regt.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek, South Africa 1901, date clasp soldered onto clasp carriage (2561 Pte. C. F. J. Gibson, Devon: Regt.) light contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £240-£280

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Peter and Dee Helmore.

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Dix Noonan Webb, June 2007.

Clarence Frederick James Gibson was born in Rotherhithe, Surrey in 1869. A Labourer by occupation, he enlisted into the Devonshire Regiment on 25 April 1889, aged 19 years. Based firstly at Aldershot, 1889-90, he was then posted to Upper Burma, 1891-92, where he served in the North-Eastern Column under Captain T. A. H. Davies, Devonshire Regiment. After service in Rawalpindi and Peshawar, 1893-96, he completed his limited period of service, before being recalled for service in the Boer War.

Sold with recipient’s Account Book; an original photograph of recipient; sleeve chevrons (3) and a ‘Relief of Ladysmith’ ribbon with an associated gilt medal bearing a photo of General Buller V.C.

Sold with copied service record and other research.