Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Lieut.-Col. H. O. P. Wright. R.M.L.I.) good very fine and rare £200-£300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Medals to Intelligence and Police Units.

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Henry Octavian Perceval Wright served in Battalion, Royal Marines, at Yokohama, Japan, 1870-74 (Gymnastic and Signalling Instructor); Adjutant Portsmouth Division, Royal Marines, 1880-85; Adjutant, 3rd {Blythswood) Volunteer Battalion, Highland Light Infantry, 1st November, 1885; author of "Volunteer Company Officer's Handbook for Parade, 1888"; appointed to the reserve of Officers of Her Majesty's Army, March, 1900; employed as Brigade-Major to 3rd Militia Brigade, Perham Down, Salisbury Plain, May, 1900, to October, 1900, under Brigadier-General Hume, C.B.; Commandant of Boer prisoners camp at St. Helena, 1901, with local rank of Lieut-Colonel, graded as Assistant Adjutant-General; promoted to Lieut-Colonel in the Reserve of Officers of the Army (Gazette 24th February, 1903) in recognition of his service during the operations in South Africa (Medal); was Claim Commissioner under Sir Gordon Sprigg, K.C.M.G. and Sir Starr Jameson, K.C.B.; District Sub-Commissioner, 1903-04; Secretary to War Claim Inquiry Commission, 1904-07; retired from the Army Reserve of Officers, 10th October 1904. (Naval Who’s Who 1917 refers).