Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War C.B.E. group of three awarded to Colonel J. E. Hume, New Zealand Artillery

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 1st type, neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels, in its Garrard & Co. Ltd. case of issue; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (Lieut. J. E. Hume, N.Z. Art.) officially engraved naming, the last clasp a contemporary tailor’s copy; New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal (Major John E. Hume, N.Z. Permanent Force (1908)) good very fine (3) £800-£1,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Simon C. Marriage Collection of Medals to the Artillery.

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C.B.E. (Military) London Gazette 3 June 1919.

John Edward Hume served with the New Zealand Artillery in the South African War 1900-01, including operations in the Orange Free State in May 1900; operations in the Transvaal in May and June 1900, including actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria and Diamond Hill (11 and 12 June); operations in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, from July to September 1900, including action at Belfast (26 and 27 August); and operations in Cape Colony from February to April 1900 (Queen’s medal with 5 clasps).
1914-19 (C.B.E.).