Family Group:

Three: Private H. B. Brooks, Kimberley Town Guard, late Riquanaland West Constabulary
South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1878 (Sergt. R. H. Brooks. Riqualanland W. Constaby.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Kimberley (Pte. R. H. Brooks. Kimb: Town Gd:); Mayor of Kimberley’s Star 1899-1900, reverse hallmark with date letter ‘a’ (Pte. R. H. Brooks), lacking it;s integral top riband bar, edge drilled at 6 o’clock on first and suspension claw reaffixed, otherwise very fine

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Defence of Kimberley, Orange Free State (Pte. H. H. Brooks. Kimberley Town Gd:) very fine (4) £800-£1,000

R. H. Brooks is noted as having served during the Siege of Kimberley as Chief of the Electrical Department, in charge of all Searchlights, Telephones and Dynamite Mines.

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