Orders, Decorations and Medals

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (J. McD. Thompson, E.R.A. 1Cl., H.M.S. Beagle) large impressed naming, very fine £140-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Boer War Medals to the Royal Navy.

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John McDonald Thompson was born in Glasgow on 11 October 1866. A Boilermaker by occupation, he entered the Royal Navy on 11 April 1889 as an Acting Engine Room Artificer 4th Class. He attained the rank of E.R.A. 1st Class when on the Duke of Wellington in April 1901. He was posted to the sloop Beagle on 24 May 1901. He died in the Cape Hospital on 16 February 1902. Sold with copied service paper and modern photographs of his grave with associated letters. The published roll lists Thompson as having been entitled to the Queen’s medal with no clasp - one of 110 so entitled.