Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Driver T. W. Davis, 75th Battery Royal Field Artillery

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Modder River, Paardeberg, Johannesburg, South Africa 1901 (26711 Dvr., 75th Bty. R.F.A.); 1914 Star (11916 Dvr., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (11916 Dvr., R.A.) very fine and better (4) £160-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Boer War Medals to the Royal Artillery.

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Thomas William Davis was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. With the 75th Battery he served in South Africa and was later discharged as time expired. Employed as a Miner, he attested for the Army Reserve (Special Reserve) at Warwick on 2 September 1914 and he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war with the 22nd Brigade R.F.A. on 6 October 1914. He remained in France until June 1918 and after a period at Home, he spent the last few days of the war in Italy. Davis was transferred to Class ‘Z’ Reserve in January 1919 and was discharged in March 1920. With copied W.W.1 period service papers and m.i.c.