Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Captain E. C. Reeves, Hampshire Regiment, late Wiltshire Regiment - subsequently awarded an M.B.E. for ‘special detection work’ in Ireland during the Rebellion

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (4614 Cpl., 2nd Wilts. Regt.) correction to rank and initials; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (4614 Serjt., Wiltshire Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.) mounted as worn, fine and better (4) £280-320

Edward Charles Reeves was born in July 1878, the son of a Second Corporal in the Army Hospital Corps. He enlisted in the Wiltshire Regiment in 1896 and served in the 2nd Battalion during the Boer War from 1900 to 1902. He went to the Western Front on 7 October 1914 as R.Q.M.S. of the 2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment and is entitled to the 1914 Star and bar. He was commissioned into the Hampshire Regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant on 17 October 1914 and served with the 1st Battalion and as Adjutant of a Cadet Battalion.

As well as service on the Western Front he also served in Ireland. He was awarded the M.B.E. in the London Gazette of 3 June 1919 as Captain, Hampshire Regiment. According to his obituary in the Hampshire Chronicle this was for service in Ireland, while the Hampshire Observer stated that it was “in recognition of his special detection work” in Ireland. He retired from the Army as a Captain on 26 July 1923 and became a sales representative for a company specialising in sports gear. He died on 11 February 1936.

With the group are three shooting medallions - a 2nd Battalion Wilts Regt medallion for Wilts Trophy 1906 (C/Sgt E.C. Reeves), a 2nd Battalion Wilts Regt medallion for Wilts County Trophy 1909 (4614 C/Sgt E.C. Reeves) and the Bell Medal presented by the Society of Miniature Rifle Clubs (unnamed). Together with copied research, including photocopied photographs, birth and death certificates, and local newspaper obituaries.