Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Boer War D.C.M. group of six awarded to Captain and Quarter-Master E. V. Tarrant, Hampshire Regiment

Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (3449 Clr:-Sergt: E. V. Tarrant. Hampshire Regt.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Johannesburg (3449 C. Sgt. E. V. Tarrant, 2nd Hampshire Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3349 Serjt:-Major E. V. Tarrant. Hampshire Regt.); 1914-15 Star (Q.M. & Lieut. E. V. Tarrant. Hamps: R.); British War and Victory Medals (Q.M. & Capt. E. V. Tarrant) attempted erasure of ‘Q.M. &’ on these last two, the earlier medals with contact marks and polished, otherwise nearly very fine or better (6) £2000-2500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Hampshire Regiment.

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D.C.M. London Gazette 27 September 1901. Only 10 D.C.Ms. to the Hampshire Regiment for the Boer War 1899-1902.

M.I.D. London Gazette 10 September 1902.

Edwin Victor Tarrant was born at Brockhurst, near Gosport, on 18 January 1873. He attested for the Hampshire Regiment on 27 February 1891. He served as Colour-Sergeant, and later as Sergeant-Major, with the 2nd Battalion in South Africa from 4 January 1900 to 28 September 1902. He was commissioned as Lieutenant and Quarter-Master, whilst stationed at Bermuda, on 7 September 1907, and served with the 1st Battalion in France from 7 June 1915.