Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Sergeant C. E. Lord, Royal Horse Artillery, later 7th Citizen Battery, South African Artillery

China 1900, no clasp (9033 Cpl: C. E. Lord. R.H.A.); 1914-15 Star (Gnr. C. E. Lord. 7th Cit. Batt.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Gnr. C. E. Lord. 7th Cit. Batt.) mounted court-style for wear, very fine and better (4) £160-£200

Charles Edward Lord was born in Maidford, Towcester, Northamptonshire, in 1874 and attested for the Royal Horse Artillery at Sheffield on 5 April 1893. He was promoted Corporal on 25 February 1897, and was discharged medically unfit on 20 October 1898, his medical history sheet implying that this was due to tubercular gonorrhoea. Clearing recovering sufficiently, he re-enlisted in the Royal Horse Artillery on 31 October 1900, and served with the Vickers Maxim Battery in China from 10 November 1900 to 13 March 1902. Discharged in South Africa on 8 October 1904, he subsequently joined the South African Police, and served with the 7th Citizen Battery, South African Artillery during the Great War in German South West Africa from 5 September 1914 to 26 June 1915.

Sold with copied record of service, medal roll extract, and other research.