Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Sergeant C. W. Simpson, 2nd Regiment, South African Infantry, late 104th (Derbyshire) Company, Imperial Yeomanry, who was severely wounded during the costly attacks on Delville Wood in July 1916

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (30356 Tpr: C. W. Simpson. 104th. Coy. Imp. Yeo.); 1914-15 Star (Sjt. C. W. Simpson 1st Infantry); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Sjt. C. W. Simpson. 2nd S.A.I.); together with the recipient’s Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘SA 9899’, traces of adhesive to reverse of all, good very fine (4) £160-£200

This lot is to be sold as part of a special collection, The Bernard Harris Collection of Medals to the 2nd Regiment, South African Infantry.

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Charles William Simpson was born in Islington, London, in 1881, and attested for the Imperial Yeomanry on 14 February 1901. Posted briefly to South Africa during the Boer War, he was discharged to civilian employment in Cape Town on 6 September 1902. Listed as a railway craneman, he returned to service with the 2nd South African Infantry during the Great War, embarking to England per S.S. Gaika on 26 January 1915. Posted to “A” Company on 10 November 1915, he was severely wounded in action on the Western Front on 27 July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. His papers note a dangerous wound to the buttock and trench feet; Simpson sailed for South Africa for discharge on 20 January 1919, his notes adding: ‘amputated foot’.

Sold with copied service record.