Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lt. Sir A. Armstrong, Bt. 61. Co. 17/Imp. Yeo.) nearly extremely fine £600-800

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, April 2001 and September 2006.

Sir Andrew Harvey Armstrong, 3rd Baronet, was born on 23 May 1866, the eldest son of Rev. Sir E. F. Armstrong, 2nd Baronet of Gallen Priory, Ferbane, King’s County, Ireland. Succeeding his father to the title in 1899, he served in the Boer War as a Lieutenant in the 61st (South Irish Horse) Company, 17th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry. On the outbreak of the Great War he was commissioned as a Temporary Captain in the 5th (Service) Battalion, Connaught Rangers, on 19 September 1914, having formerly been a Captain in the 3rd Leinster Regiment. Posted to the Depot, he served during the Great War at home.

Sir Andrew Armstrong was appointed High Sheriff of King’s County in 1914. He died in Auckland, New Zealand on 3 June 1922, and was succeeded in the title by his brother.