Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Renamed and Defective Medals (2): Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902 (2), no clasp (Agent A. E. Caplen. F.I.D.) planchet only, and remnants of brooch mounting to obverse; 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Transvaal (3479 Lc. Cpl. T. E. Walker 1st. Vol. Batt. R.A.M.C.) renamed, with contemporary top silver brooch bar, edge bruising, generally very fine (2) £60-£80

Arthur Edwin Caplen, a Lithographic Draughtsman with the Civil Commissioner’s Office, Cape Town, served with the Field Intelligence Department during the Boer War, and was awarded a no clasp Queen’s South Africa Medal.