Orders, Decorations and Medals Including five Special Collections

Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-97, 1 clasp, Basutoland (Lieut. G. G. E. Graves, C.M. Rifn.) very fine £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Gordon Everson.

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Galbraith George Edward Graves was born in 1853, son of Edwin E. Graves, a Sub-Inspector in the Royal Irish Constabulary. He appears to have gone with his father to Natal in about 1876 and joined the Cape Mounted Rifles as a Private on 9 March 1880, was made 3rd Class Sergeant the following month, and was promoted to 1st Class Sergeant and Regimental Sergeant Major on 8th June. In March 1881 he was promoted to Lieutenant and appointed Acting Adjutant of Troop 1. He was dismissed in May 1883 after charges of drunkenness and ungentlemanly conduct were brought against him by a superior officer, but these proved to be unfounded and based on malicious hearsay, and he was consequently officially discharged on 1 September 1884 on reduction of the establishment. In 1892 he was serving as a Major with the British South Africa Company Police at Fort Victoria.