Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (Major J. H. Greenway. R.A.M.C.) engraved naming, about extremely fine £240-£280

John Henry Greenway trained at Guy’s Hospital and joined the Army Medical Service in August 1885. He was advanced major, Royal Army Medical Corps, on 30 May 1897 and served for six years in India and eight years in South Africa. At the outbreak of the Boer War he was attached to the Berkshire Regiment at Naaupoort, and then went to the Orange River in charged of a field hospital under Lord Methuen. In the fighting march to Bloemfontein he was in command of the 19th Brigade Bearer Company with Smith-Dorrien’s Column, and was thus present at the engagements at Jacobadal, Paardeberg, and Driefontein. Arriving at Bloemfontien, he was placed in charge of the Convent Hospital, and remained in this position until invalided home in 1901. He was sent out to South Africa at the beginning of 1904, and died in the military hospital at Wynberg, on 8 August 1904.

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