Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private T. Arnott, 1st Regiment, South African Infantry
British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Pte. T. Arnott. 1st. S.A.I.) glue residue to reverse of both, very fine and better

Pair: Private A. P. Fernside, 1st Regiment, South African Infantry
British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Pte. A. P. Fernside. 1st. S.A.I.) glue residue to reverse of both, very fine (4) £60-£80

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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Tom Arnott was born in Lasswade, Scotland, around 1883, and attested for the 1st South African Infantry at Durban on 28 February 1917. His service record states ‘Volunteer in Scottish Horse, 1903’, and notes that he served on the Western Front from July 1917. Two months later he suffered a gunshot wound to the right foot and right arm during the Battle of Passchendaele; sent to hospital in Richmond, he was discharged due to wounds and sailed for South Africa on 4 March 1919.

Sold with copied service record.

Arthur Percy Fernside was born in Durban in 1894 and attested for the 1st South African Infantry at Cape Town on 17 April 1917. Posted to the Western Front, he suffered a gunshot wound to the shoulder on 22 June 1918. Evacuated to England via Newhaven, he spent almost a month in recovery at the South African Military Hospital in Richmond Park. The recipient’s service papers add: ‘Machine gun bullet wound above right shoulder. No complications, wound nearly healed.’

Sold with copied service record.