Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A most unusual ‘double issue’ group of five awarded to Major A. W. Grepe, Remount Department, Royal Artillery, who was mentioned in despatches for service in the Boer War

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (Capt. A. W. Grepe. R.F.A.) engraved naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Capt. H. W. Grepe. R.F.A.) engraved naming; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (Capt. A. W. Grepe. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Major A. W. Grepe.) VM officially re-impressed, edge bruise to QSA, very fine and better

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (Capt: A. W. Grepe. R.A.) engraved naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Capt: A. W. Grepe, Remt: Est:) engraved naming; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (Capt: A. W. Grepe. R.A.) good very fine (8) £600-£800

Arthur Wellesley Grepe was born in January 1868 and attended the Royal Military Academy as Gentleman Cadet on 19 January 1886. Raised Second Lieutenant 17 February 1888 and Captain 8 September 1898, he served during the Boer War as Captain in the Royal Garrison Artillery and as Deputy Adjutant General, extra-regimentally employed with the Remount Establishment as Remount Claims Officer in Cape Town. Mentioned in Lord Roberts’ despatch of 10 September 1901, he was subsequently appointed Remount Officer to the Somaliland Field Force, in which capacity he served until June 1903 when he returned to England.

Returned to the Cape as General Staff Officer at Bloemfontein from January 1904 to March 1907, Grepe took his retirement in May 1908 but was re-employed at the outbreak of the Great War as Major on the Reserve of Officers. Appointed District Remount Officer in December 1919 for the Eastern Command, North Kent District, Grepe died shortly thereafter in London on 22 January 1922.