Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Captain and Adjutant A. H. H. Rice, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, OFS clasp a tailor’s copy (3985 Pte. A. Rice, Derby: Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 1 clasp, South Africa 1902 (3985 Serjt: A. Rice. Notts: & Derby: Regt.); 1914-15 Star, unnamed; British War Medal 1914-20 (Q.M. & Lieut. A. H. H. Rice.); Victory Medal 1914-19, erased; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (3985 C.Sjt: A. H. H. Rice. Notts: & Derby: Regt.) contact marks and polishing throughout, generally nearly very fine (6) £200-£240

Adolphus Herbert Henry Rice was born in Colchester in 1879 and attested for the 1st Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters, on 17 January 1893 - the recipient’s Army Service Record confirming his age as 14 years, 8 months. Appointed Drummer on 10 February 1893, he was raised Lance Corporal on 15 September 1898 and posted to Malta six days later. He served in South Africa during the Boer War from 21 November 1899 to 30 May 1900, and again from 1 March 1902 to 7 September 1902, and his service papers confirm that he received just a single clasp King’s South Africa Medal.

Rice witnessed further overseas service in Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements before being discharged to a commission after 20 years in the ranks on 3 May 1915. Appointed temporary Quartermaster, with the honorary rank of Lieutenant, in the 11th Battalion (St. Helen’s, Pioneers), The Prince of Wales’s Volunteers, in the London Gazette of 21 June 1915, he served in France from 6 November 1915. Raised Captain and Adjutant, he later submitted a claim for his Great War medals in August 1920, his address noted as ‘93, Infinity Road, Bootle, Liverpool.’

According to the recipient’s obituary published in the Derby Daily Telegraph on 6 January 1934, Rice later worked as a rate collector for the Matlock Urban Council. He died suddenly in his home town ‘whilst shaving’ and was buried at Melbourne Cemetery with full military honours.

Sold with copied record of service.