Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Pair: Private George Beynon (Senior), Kimberley Town Guard
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Kimberley (Pte. G. Beynon. Kimberley Town Gd:); Mayor of Kimberley’s Star 1899-1900, reverse hallmark with date letter ‘a’, unnamed, with copy suspension bar and copy integral top brooch bar, good very fine

Pair: Lance-Corporal George Beynon (Junior), South African Infantry, who was captured and taken Prisoner of War in April 1918, and died of wounds in captivity on 28 April 1918
1914-15 Star (Pte. G. Beynon 7th Infantry); British War Medal 1914-20 (L/Cpl. G. Beynon. 1st. S.A.I.) very fine

British War Medal 1914-20 (368385 Pte. E. Beynon. R.A.M.C.) very fine (5) £400-£500

George Beynon (Senior) was born in Swansea in 1858, and having emigrated to Kimberley in 1879, where he took up mining with success, served with No. III Section, L Company, Kimberley Town Guard.

George Beynon (Junior) was born in Kimberley on 18 August 1892, the son of the above, and prior to the Great War worked alongside his father at the De Beers Diamond Mine. In 1914 he joined General Botha’s force, and served in German East Africa, before proceeding to the Western Front in November 1915. Wounded and taken Prisoner of War in April 1918, he died of his wounds in captivity on 28 April 1918. Originally buried in Johanisthgal Prisoner of War Cemetery near Stettin, he is now interred in Berlin South-Western Cemetery, Germany.

Edward Beynon, brother of the above, served with the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Great War, and survived the War.

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