Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Rhodesia 1896, no clasp 9155 Troopr. A. Simmonds. B.S.A.P.) edge nicks, good very fine £280-£320

Arthur Simmonds served as a Trooper with the British South Africa Police, and died of wounds received at the attack on Mashangombi’s Stronghold on 29 July 1897 (London Gazette 5 April 1898). Also entitled to the clasp ‘Mashonaland 1897’.