Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Private J. St. C. Limerick, Cape Police, who afterwards served with the Border Scouts, Royston’s Horse, and 10th South African Infantry, who died of wounds in East Africa on 17 August 1916

Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-97, 1 clasp, Bechuanaland (Pte. J. St. C. Limerick. C. Pol.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (393 Pte. J. St. Clair Limerick. Cape Police); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lt: J. St. C. Limerick, Border Scouts); Natal 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (Cpl: J. St. C. Limerick, Royston’s Horse; British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Lt. I. St. C. Limrick.) note first initial and spelling of surname, together with Memorial Plaque (Jan St. Clair Limerick) light contact marks, otherwise good very fine and better (7) £700-£900

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

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John/Jan/Ian St Clair Limerick was born at Cork, Ireland, on 15 May 1878, and moved to South Africa in 1895. He enrolled in the Special Rinderpest Police in November 1896, and served with the Bechuanaland Field Force in 1897, before joining the Cape Police District 2 on 7 July 1897, seeing service in South Africa in 1899-1900 as a Corporal in C.P.2 before taking a commission as Lieutenant in the Border Scouts for the remainder of the war. He served as a Corporal in Royston’s Horse during the campaign in Natal 1906, but was also in the Cape Mounted Police 1902-04 and the South African Constabulary 1904-08. Lieutenant Limerick served in German East Africa with 10th South African Infantry from April 1916 and died of wounds at Kidete on 17 August 1916. He is buried in Upanga Street Cemetery, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.

Sold with some original correspondence regarding his service and death, etc., together with copied record of service and medal roll extracts.