Orders, Decorations and Medals Including five Special Collections

A Boer War, Natal Rebellion and Great War group of seven to Lieutenant A. Pinnock, South African Mounted Rifles, late King’s Royal Rifle Corps and Cape Mounted Riflemen

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Talana, Transvaal, Orange Free State, Defence of Ladysmith (8780 Pte. A. Pinnock, K.R.R.C.) the last clasps two loose on ribbon; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (8780 Pte. A. Pinnock, K.R.R.C.); Natal 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (Pte. A. Pinnock, Cape Mtd. Riflemen); 1914-15 Star (Lt. A. Pinnock, 2nd S.A.M.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. A. Pinnock); Permanent Forces of the Empire Beyond the Seas L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (No. 131 Cpl. A. Pinnock, 1st Rgt. S.A.M.R.) the first three with contact marks, very fine, otherwise nearly extremely fine (7) £350-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Gordon Everson.

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Alfred Pinnock was born at Thatcham, near Newbury, Berkshire, on 1 March 1877, and enlisted into the King’s Royal Rifle Corps on 17 September 1894. He served in South Africa from April 1897 and was present during the Boer War at the action at Talana and the Defence of Ladysmith, returning to England in May 1900. He went back to South Africa in September 1900 and remained there until October 1902, after which he served at home until his discharge on 16 September 1906. He served with the Cape Mounted Riflemen during the Natal Rebellion of 1906, and later transferred to the South African Mounted Rifles. During the Great War he served in German South West Africa from 8 August 1914 until 9 July 1915. In November 1916 he returned to England to take up a commission in his old regiment, the King’s Royal Rifle Corps. He joined the 2nd Battalion on the Yser River in France during May 1917, and was taken prisoner on 9th/10th July 1917, along with the rest of the 2nd Battalion who were not killed. He spent the remainder of the war in Germany and was repatriated on 1 January 1919.