Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, date clasp loose on riband, as issued (13127 Tpr: C. W. Blyth. 52nd. Coy. Impl: Yeo:) good very fine

Rhodesia, General Service Medal (5512 Snr. Tech. J. Andersen); together with an unofficial Rhodesian Accession of King George Medal, 1910; five Northern Rhodesia Police badges; two NRP shoulder titles; two police “pips”; six assorted buttons; and a National Rhodesia Rifle Association prize medal, good very fine (lot) £100-£140

Charles Wood Blyth was born in Barnet, Hertfordshire, in 1880 and attested for the Imperial Yeomanry, serving with the 52nd (Paget’s Horse) Company, 19th Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War. He died in Umtali, Southern Rhodesia, in 1952. He was the step-grandfather of J. Andersen.