The Upfill-Brown Collection

Three: Captain C. R. Ottley, Natal Police

QUEEN'S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Natal, Transvaal, Orange Free State (Sub. Insptr., Natal Police), last clasp unofficially riveted; KING'S SOUTH AFRICA, 2 clasps (Sub. Inspector, Natal Police); NATAL REBELLION 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (Capt., Natal Police), engraved in running script as issued to officers, mounted court style for display, slight contact wear, about very fine or better (3)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The AA Upfill-Brown Collection.

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Captain C.R. Ottley is stated on the medal roll to have seen service with the 4th Imperial Yeomanry during the Boer War, in addition to acting as A.D.C. to Lieutenant-General Lyttelton. He is mentioned in H.P. Holt's History of the Mounted Police of Natal (John Murray, London, 1913).