The Late Bruce C Cazel Collection of British Campaign Awards

Three: Trooper T. A. McEwan, British South Africa Police

1914-15 Star (1527 Tpr., B.S.A.P.); British War and Victory Medals (1527 Tpr., B.S.A.P.) good very fine (3)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Late Bruce C Cazel Collection of British Campaign Awards.

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Thomas Allen McEwan was born in Stoke Newington, London, in January 1889. He attended Parmilers School at Victoria Park, London after which he joined Aitchison and Company, becoming an Optician. During this time he joined the 21st Middlesex Volunteer Rifle Corps, serving February 1906-March 1909. Moving to Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, he attested for the British South Africa Police on 9 December 1911. When the B.S.A.P. service companies were formed, Trooper McEwan was one of the pre-war regulars permitted to be transferred. He served with Murray’s Column in East Africa as a machine gunner, entering the theatre of war on 3 October 1915. He was invalided from East Africa due to disease in October 1917 and was discharged as medically unfit on 26 April 1918. His passage to England was then arranged so he could receive further medical treatment.

With copied m.i.c. and other research which includes extracts from the O.M.R.S. Miscellany of Honours, No. 8, 1987, The B.S.A. Police Issue of the 1914-1915 Star, by Bruce C. Cazel, which features the group to McEwan.