Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Sapper J. G. Wickham, Royal Engineers

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg (23066 Sapr. J. G. Wickham. R.E.) engraved naming; Imperial Service Medal, G.V.R., Circular issue, 1st ‘coinage head’ issue (John George Wickham) good very fine (2) £120-£160

This lot is to be sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward De Santis.

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John George Wickham was born in Brighton in April 1865 and attested there for the Royal Engineers on 11 August 1888. He served with the 38th Field Company in South Africa during the Boer War and was also entitle to the clasp Driefontein. Invalided to England on 14 May 1900, he was discharged on 21 November 1901, and was subsequently employed as a postman in Crewe, being awarded his Imperial Service Medal upon his retirement (London Gazette 12 May 1925). He died in Crewe on 7 March 1942.