Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second Boer War C.M.G. pair awarded to Mr William A. Knight, Sergeant in the Natal Guides and later Manager, Swaziland Tin Mines

The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s, breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels, complete with ribbon buckle; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (Serjt: W. A. Knight. Natal Guides.) several small enamel chips to both centres of the first, otherwise better than very fine (2) £800-£1,000

C.M.G. London Gazette 27 September 1901: ‘William A. Knight Esq., Natal Guides.’

M.I.D. London Gazette 10 September 1901 (Lord Roberts’ despatch of 4 September 1901).

All men of the Natal Guides held the rank of ‘Guide with Honorary rank of Sergeant.’

A directory, circa 1912, Women of South Africa, lists Mrs Martha Christina Knight, wife of W. A. Knight, Esq., C.M.G., late Manager, Swaziland Tin Mines. She was born at Mafeking, daughter of J. M. de Beer, one of the early settlers from Cape Colony in the Transvaal. Residing at Atbara, Bethlehem, O.F.S.

Sold with an original cabinet photograph William Knight in uniform by W. Watson Robertson of Pietermaritzburg.