Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Gunner G. R. Cunnington, Royal Marine Artillery, later Divisional Signal Company, South African Forces

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Belmont (3444 Gr: G. R. Cunnington, R.M.A., HMS Monarch); British War Medal 1914-20 (L/Cpl. G. R. Cunnington. D.S.C.) edge bruising to QSA, very fine (2) £240-£280

G. R. Cunnington served during the Boer War as a Gunner, Royal Marine Artillery in H.M.S. Monarch, and was wounded at Enslin on 25 November 1899. He subsequently served during the Great War with the South African Forces.

Sold with copied medal roll extract that states that the recipient was additionally entitled to the Modder River clasp; however, Fevyer and Wilson confirm that he was only entitled to the Belmont clasp.