Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private A. Inskip, Lancashire Fusiliers

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Wittebergen (6164 [sic] Pte. A. Inskip. Lanc: Fus: M.I.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (6329 Pte. J. [sic] Inskip. Lancs: Fus:) contact marks, edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine (2) £140-£180

Arthur Inskip, a Carter from Longton, Staffordshire , attested into the North Staffordshire Regiment on 24 December 1896, transferring into the Lancashire Fusiliers in April 1898. Serving in Malta, he gained his Mounted Infantry Certificate on 17 May 1900 before service in South Africa during the Boer War from May 1900 to October 1902 and, upon discharge, transferred into the Army Reserve on 23 December 1903.

He appears in a Staffordshire Advertiser article of 6 March 1915 ‘Newcastle Conservative Club’ reporting – ‘The club rifle range has been thrown open to the young men of the district for rifle practice. Under the coaching of Mr. A. Inskip and others, over three hundred youths received instruction. The Club President spoke appreciatively of the instructors who had given their time to this work.’ Attesting into the North Staffordshire Regiment for service during the Great War, he served with the 7th Battalion in Egypt in 1916 before further service in the Caucuses with Dunsterforce, including service during the action at Baku in August 1918. He died, aged 76, in Staffordshire, on 22 October 1955.

Sold with copied medal roll extracts, copied Medal Index Card, detailed copied research upon a USB drive, and an interesting detailed article published in the May 2025 edition of Medal News in relation to the recipient and his sons, one of who the tragically committed suicide in 1934, the other who was convicted of manslaughter in 1948.