Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, N. Nigeria (Dr. H. G. Lewer, N. Nigeria Regt.) retaining bar re-affixed (see footnote), good very fine £240-£280

Dix Noonan Webb, December 2003 (when sold with the recipient’s other Africa General Service Medal, named to W.A.M.S., with both clasps affixed to the first (N.N.R.) medal); Fred Rockwood Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, October 2014 (this medal only, reconstituted as originally issued, as it appears in this lot)

Horace Gordon Lewer studied at both Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities, an joined the Colonial Medical Service in 1899. He served initially with the Northern Nigeria Regiment (Medal and clasp for N. Nigeria), before transferring to the West African Medical Staff (Medal and clasp for N. Nigeria 1902); the medal rolls clearly show that he was issued separate single clasp medals for each campaign.