Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Sub-Conductor A. W. Rothery, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, late Pom Pom Section Royal Artillery, who died on 7 January 1916

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (97097 Sgt., 4th M.B., R.G.A.) last two clasps connected by thread, initials corrected; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps 97097 Serjt., Pom Poms Sec. R.A.); with Memorial Plaque (Arthur William Rothery) some edge bruising and contact marks, very fine and better (3) £200-250

Arthur William Rothery was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. A Clerk by occupation, he attested for the Royal Artillery at London on 19 April 1893, aged 21 years, 5 months. Posted to the Mountain Batteries, Royal Garrison Artillery, he served in Malta, April 1897; Crete, April-November 1897; Malta, November 1897-February 1898; and South Africa, November 1899-October 1902. During the Boer War he served in the Pom Pom Section of the Artillery. Rothery was discharged having completed his period of service in April 1905. In the Great War he served as a Sub-Conductor in the 21st Company Royal Army Ordnance Corps.

He died in France on 7 January 1916, aged 44 years and was buried in the Calais Southern Cemetery. He was the son of Edwin and Sophia Rothery, of Farnley Tyas, Huddersfield.

With copied service papers and other research. Roll extracts indicate entitlement to the clasps Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Orange Free State and Laing’s Nek.