Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (4216 Pte. G. Staley, 2d. Bn. Dery: Regt.) suspension claw loose, minor edge bruising, nearly extremely fine £140-180

G. Staley served with the 2nd Battalion Derbyshire Regiment on both the North West Frontier of India, before transferring to the 1st Battalion and serving in South Africa during the Boer War. He was killed in action at Vlakfontein on 29 May 1901, on which date the battalion suffered 20 Officers and men killed, 59 wounded, and 5 missing (entitled to the Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasps for Cape Colony, Orange Free State, and Diamond Hill). He is commemorated on the Sherwood Foresters Boer War Memorial in St. Mary’s Church, Nottingham.