The Upfill-Brown Collection

Pair: Lieutenant A. C. Blackett, South African Constabulary, late Bethune’s Mounted Infantry, killed at Vlakfontein

QUEEN'S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, OrangeFree State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing's Nek (Lieutenant, Bethune's M.I.);KING'S SOUTH AFRICA, 2 clasps (Lieut., S.A.C.), mounted for wearing, good very fine (2)

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

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Lieutenant Algernon Carey Blackett was born on 6 May 1873, the youngest son of Captain E. A. Blackert, R. N., and educated at Bedford Grammar School, Wellington College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He entered Bethune's Mounted Infantry on the outbreak of war, remaining with this unit until March 1901, when he transferred into the South African Constabulary. Blackett was wounded at Wildeals Krall on 12 October 1901, and killed in action at Vlakfontein on 8 February 1902, in which action Captain H. Martin-Leake of the same regiment won the first of his two Victoria Crosses.