Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Sergeant A. Dunn, 2nd Regiment, South African Infantry, late Railway Pioneer Regiment and Natal Naval Corps, who was severely wounded in action in the first week of the German Spring Offensive in 1918

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (1507 Pte. A. Dunn. Rly: Pnr: Regt.); Natal 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (P.O.2. A. Dunn, Natal Naval Corps.); 1914-15 Star (Snr. A. Dunn 12th Cit. Batt.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Sjt. A. Dunn. 2nd S.A.I.) mounted for wear, traces of adhesive to reverse of all, minor edge bruising and contact marks, generally very fine, the second scarce to unit (5) £400-£500

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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Alfred Dunn, a fisherman and sometime postman, was born in Hornsey, London, in 1883, and served with the 2nd Railway Pioneer Regiment during the Boer War. He later joined the Natal Naval Corps as Petty Officer 2nd Class, the Corps serving during the Rebellion as part of the Natal Militia in artillery and infantry roles. Discharged in consequence of a weakness to the left eye, he re-attested at Potchefstroom for the 2nd South African Infantry on 3 September 1915 and disembarked at Alexandria per Veronica on 12 January 1916. Transferred to the Western Front in late April 1916, he was raised Sergeant 13 October 1916 and was granted a Signaller’s allowance on 1 January 1917. Admitted to No. 32 Stationary Hospital at Wimereux with a gunshot wound to the right leg and left elbow 29 March 1918, he was evacuated to England and discharged at Wynberg in 1920.

Sold with copied service record.