Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Boer War C.M.G. group of four to Colonel F. H. Pickwoad, Commanding the Artillery at the Defence of Ladysmith

THE MOST DISTINGUISHED ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE, C.M.G., breast badge in silver-gilt and enamels, with ribbon buckle; AFGHANISTAN 1878-80, no clasp (Lieut, D/2nd. Bde. R.A.); QUEEN'S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Talana, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lt. Col., C.M.G., R.F.A.); KING'S SOUTH AFRICA, 2 clasps (Colonel, C.M.G., R.F.A.) mounted as worn, very fine or better (4)

Colonel Edwin Hay Pickwoad, C.M.G., was born on 1 June 1883 and commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1873. He served in Afghanistan with D Battery, 2nd Brigade, and was shortly after promoted Captain. He was promoted Major, Commanding Artillery in South Africa, in 1889. When the Boer War broke out, as Lieutenant-Colonel, he commanded the Artillery at the battles of Talana, Dundee, Farquhars Farm, and at the Defence of Ladysmith where he was severely wounded. For his gallantry and distinguished conduct on these occasions, Pickwoad was four times mentioned in despatches and created a C.M.G. He retired with the rank of Colonel in 1903 but was engaged with the purchase of horses for the B.E.F. in 1914, operating from his residence at Haversham Manor, in Buckinghamshire. Colonel Pickwoad died on 15 May 1932.