Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Boer War D.S.O. group of five awarded to Captain E. J. G. Upton, Hampshire Imperial Yeomanry, later Brands Free State Rifles

Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamels; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (Captain, Imp. Yeo.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Capt., I.Y.) this with official corrections; 1914-15 Star (Lt., Brands F.S. Rfls.); British War Medal (Lt.) good very fine (5) £900-1200

D.S.O. London Gazette 31 October 1902.

Edward James Gott Upton was born at Loughton, Essex, on 17 October 1868, son of Major R. D. Upton, 9th Lancers, and educated at Durham School. He served in South Africa with the 50th (Hampshire) Company, Imperial Yeomanry, and received a commission as Lieutenant in March 1901, becoming Captain on 25 May 1901. He was present in operations in the Orange Free State and in the engagements at Wittebergen (mentioned in despatches, D.S.O., Queen’s medal with three clasps, King’s medal with two clasps).

Upton served with Brand’s Horse in the suppression of the Boer Rebellion in 1914, and in the European War in 1915 in German South-West Africa, Otzimbingue and Otavifontein. The group is sold with a large quantity of original documentation including Warrant for the D.S.O., commission document, various forwarding letters for medals and a number of photographs.