Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Territorial Decoration, E.VII.R., silver and gilt, hallmarks for London 1909, the reverse contemporarily engraved ‘Capt. F. W. G. Gore Impl. Yeo.’, with integral top riband bar, nearly extremely fine £100-£140

Francis William George Gore was born on 22 June 1855, the son of the Rev. George Gore of Newton St. Loe, Somerset, and was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford. He served in the Boer War as a Staff Captain in the Imperial Yeomanry, being present in operations in Transvaal east of Pretoria, July to August 1900; operations in Transvaal west of Pretoria, including the action at Zihkats Nek; operations in the Orange River Colony, July 1900, and operations in Cape Colony south of the Orange River, May-July 1900. During the Great War he again served with the Yeomanry, with the London Mounted Brigade. Latterly he was Lieutenant-Colonel of the City of London Yeomanry (Roughriders). In later life he was a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Glamorgan and a Justice of the Peace for both Glamorgan and Monmouth. He died on 17 July 1938.

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Note: The recipient’s Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasps for Cape Colony, Orange Free State, and Transvaal was sold in these rooms in June 2008.