Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British War Medal 1914-20 (4) (Pte. J. E. M. Joly. 2nd S.A.I.; Pte. J. A. Mann. 2nd S.A.I.; Pte. A. S. Mather. 2nd S.A.I.; Pte. W. G. R. Ogilvie 2nd S.A.I.) traces of adhesive to reverse of all, very fine and better (4) £80-£100

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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Jules Evarist Maurice Joly was born around 1899 and embarked with “B” Company, 2nd South African Infantry, from Cape Town to England per H.M.T. Durham Castle on 2 May 1918. Posted to the Western Front from June 1918, his active service was prematurely ended by a gunshot wound to the right forearm and neck on 8 October 1918. He was discharged at Maitland on 28 August 1919.

James Arthur Mann was born in King William’s Town in 1895 and attested for the 1st South African Infantry at Potchefstroom on 6 August 1917. Transferred to the 2nd Regiment, he was reported missing in action on the Western Front on 24 March 1918. Confirmed as a Prisoner of War, he was repatriated 5 December 1918 and disembarked at Cape Town on 15 April 1919.

Alexander Shaw Mather was born in Tyndock, England, around 1891, and attested for the 2nd South African Infantry at Potchefstroom on 31 August 1915. He suffered a gunshot wound to the right leg during the Battle of the Somme on 17 July 1916 and was evacuated across the Channel to hospital in Tooting. The wound ended his campaign and he was discharged medically unfit at Wynberg on 27 April 1917.

Walter George Bingham Ogilvie was born at Thomas River, Cape Province, around 1893, and attested for the Railway Company of the 1st South African Infantry at Potchefstroom on 17 April 1918. Transferred to the 2nd Regiment, he was briefly sent to the Western Front from 30 October 1918, returning home to employment as a Station Foreman for the South African Railways a short while later.

Sold with copied service records for all four recipients.