Orders, Decorations and Medals Including five Special Collections

A Boer War and Great War group of five to Sergeant L. Rose, 17th Lancers and Army Veterinary Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4980 Pte. L. Rose, 17th Lancers); 1914 Star (4980 Pte. L. Rose, 17/Lrs.); British War and Victory Medals (4980 T. Sjt. L. Rose, 17-Lrs.); Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (R-809 T. Sjt. L. Rose, R.A.V.C.) together with his Soldier’s Small Book and certificates of Character, Discharge and Education, very fine or better (5) £250-300

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

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M.S.M. London Gazette 16 October 1919, ‘In recognition of valuable services rendered with the Armies in France and Flanders.’

Lionel Rose was born at Reading, Berkshire, and enlisted into the 17th Lancers at Caversham, Oxfordshire, on 20 September 1899, aged 18 years 8 months. He served in South Africa from 18 December 1900 to 18 October 1902, receiving the Queen’s medal with four clasps, and in India from September 1905 until October 1907. He served during the Great War with the 17th Lancers in France from 10 August 1914 until 21 April 1919, and was latterly attached to the Royal Army Veterinary Corps as an Acting Paid Sergeant. He was discharged at Woolwich on 26 May 1919. He died at Cardiff on 28 June 1948, aged 66.

See lot 142 for related family medal.