Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sergeant C. W. Dight, 1st Regiment, South African Infantry, late Natal Light Horse, who was killed in action on 21 May 1916

1914-15 Star (S.S.M. C. W. Dight. Ntl Light Hse.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (2nd C/W.O. C. W. Dight. 1st. S.A.I.) glue residue to reverse of all, nearly very fine (3) £80-£100

This lot is to be sold as part of a special collection, The Bernard Harris Collection of Medals to the 1st Regiment, South African Infantry.

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Dix Noonan Webb, February 2019.

Charles William Dight was born in Kent in 1876 and lived with his wife Mary at 212 Grayling Street, Maritzburg, Natal. He attested for the 1st South African Infantry at Potchefstroom on 7 September 1915, his papers recording previous service with Brabant’s Horse, the Scottish Light Horse and the Natal Light Horse. Posted to Alexandria per Saxonia on 29 December 1915, he was transferred to France in April 1916 and was killed in action near Ypres two months later; aged 39 years, Dight is buried at Gunners Farm Military Cemetery in the Hainaut Region of Belgium.

Sold with copied service record and a colour photograph of the recipient’s headstone.