Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Company Sergeant Major A. Quigley, 2nd Regiment, South African Infantry, late Natal Police, later 1st Class Detective Sergeant, South African Police

Natal 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (Tpr: A. Quigley, Natal Police.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (2nd C/W.O. A. Quigley. 2nd S.A.I.); South Africa Police Service Faithful Service Medal (N02456(F) 1/C Det/Sergeant A. Quigley.) traces of adhesive to reverse of all, very fine and better (4) £240-£280

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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Andrew Quigley was born in Londonderry, Ireland, in 1883, and attested for the 2nd South African Infantry at Potchefstroom on 9 September 1915. Disembarked at Alexandria 12 January 1916, he is recorded as wounded in action at Hazalin (Matruh) on 23 January 1916. Admitted to hospital with a severe gunshot wound to the left leg, he returned to duty as C.S.M. at Matruh in April 1916. Transferred to France 20 April 1916, he was later reported as missing in action during the Battle of the Somme on 18 July 1916. Confirmed as a Prisoner of War in Germany, Quigley was repatriated at the cessation of hostilities and discharged at Maitland in April 1919, his future address for correspondence noted as the ‘Criminal Investigation Department, Durban’.

Sold with the recipient’s original base metal identity bracelet, this impressed ‘5596 A. Quigley C of E, C.S.M., 2. Sth. Afr. Inf.’; and copied service record.