Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Colour-Sergeant W. Hammond, Scots Guards, later Quartermaster and Lieutenant Oxford University Officers Training Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (356 Serjt. W. Hammond. Scots Gds.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (356 Serjt: W. Hammond. Scots Guards.); British War Medal 1914-20, with M.I.D. oak leaves (356 A.W.O. Cl. 2. W. Hammond. S. Gds.) official corrections; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (356 C. Sjt: W. Hammond. S. Gds.) mounted as worn, contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine or better (4) £300-£400

M.I.D. London Gazette 24 February 1917: ‘For valuable services rendered in connection with the War.’

William Hammond served with the Scots Guards in South Africa from March 1900 to 27 October 1902. He received his L.S. & G.C. medal with £5 Gratuity in 1912, and during the Great War he served on the Permanent Staff of the Oxford University O.T.C. Contingent as Regimental Sergeant Major, later being commissioned Q.M. and Lieutenant. He was ineligible for the Victory Medal.

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