Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Sergeant L. C. Poisson, 2nd Regiment, South African Infantry, late Durban Light Infantry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (100 Sergt. L. C. Poisson. Durban L.I.) number and rank unofficially re-engraved; Natal 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (Col. Sgt. L. C. Poisson, Durban Light Infantry.); 1914-15 Star (Sjt. L. C. Poisson 1st Infantry); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Sjt. L. C. Poisson. 2nd S.A.I.) traces of adhesive to reverse of all medals, edge bruise to Natal, nearly very fine and better (5) £260-£300

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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Louis Charles Poisson was born on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius in 1879, and served for over 18 years with the Durban Light Infantry, including active service during the Boer War, the Natal Rebellion, and in German South West Africa. Attesting for the 2nd South African Infantry at Potchefstroom on 3 September 1915 and posted to the Western Front, his active service in the lead up to the Battle of the Somme was heavily curtailed due to bronchitis, myalgia and tonsillitis. Evacuated from Boulogne to England on 23 October 1916, he returned home to Durban in H.M.A.T. Nestor and spent further time in hospital with rheumatic fever. Discharged at Wynberg physically unfit for further war service, his address for future correspondence was given as ‘Machine Shop, SAR [Railways and Harbours], Durban.’

Sold with copied service record.