Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant C. W. N. Perkins, Commander in Chief’s Bodyguard, late Trooper, Matabele Relief Force

British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Rhodesia 1896, no clasp (Troopr. C. W. Perkins. M.R.F.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Relief of Mafeking, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Relief of Ladysmith, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivets between fifth and sixth clasps (Lieut: C. N. Perkins, C. in C. Bodygd.) engraved naming, mounted as worn with the QSA first, and housed in a fitted leather case, edge nicks, nearly extremely fine (2) £400-£500

Cyril Warton Norwood Perkins, the son of the Reverend T. N. Perkins, Vicar of Newlyn, Cornwall, served initially as a Trooper, Matabele Relief Force, and subsequently as a Trooper in the 1st Imperial Light Horse during the Boer War (the medal rolls for which show entitlement to all the clasps except for the Orange Free State clasp, which was probably issued in error). He was awarded the 1901 date clasp as a Lieutenant in the Commander in Chief’s Bodyguard.