Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Private E. A. Linforth, South African Infantry, late Durban Light Infantry, Volunteer Composite Regiment, Natal Royal Regiment and S.A.M.C.

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (776 Pte., Durban L.I.), second initial ‘D.’; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 1 clasp, South Africa 1902 (776 Pte., Volunteer Composite Regt.); Natal 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (Drmr., Natal Royal Regt.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Sjt., S.A.M.C.); Victory Medal, bi-lingual issue (Sjt., 6th S.A.I.) the second renamed, minor contact marks, very fine and better (5) £160-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals to The Rifle Brigade and Affiliated Regiments from the collection formed by Michael Haines.

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Sold with copied Great War service record.

Ernest Arthur Linforth would appear to have originally witnessed active service in German East Africa, several times being admitted to hospital with malaria in the course of 1916. Subsequently embarked at Cape Town on H.M.T. Orontes, he arrived back there aboard H.M.T. Guildford Castle in July 1919. Having been appointed an Acting Sergeant back in June 1917, he reverted to the rank of Private a month or two later, very probably as a result of the disciplinary problems revealed in his service record.