Boer War 4 CLASP QUEENS SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL GROUP CHESHIRE YEOMANRY COMMISSIONED

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Boer War 4 CLASP QUEENS SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL GROUP CHESHIRE YEOMANRY COMMISSIONED:
$345.19

Captain O.A. Speed, Cheshire Home Guard, Late Imperial Yeomanry and Army Service Corps
Queen\'s South Africa 1899-1902, four clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between State and date clasps (25385 Tpr: O.A. Speed. 21st. Coy. Imp: Yeo:);
British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. O.A. Speed.), attempts to obliterate \'2\' on both;
Defence Medal (Capt O.A. Speed Birkenhead Home Guard), impressed \'Boots\' style, edge bruise to first, nearly very fine
Captain Orry Augustine Speed, born Warrington, Lancashire, 1880; served during the Boer War with the 21st (Cheshire) Company, 2nd Battalion Imperial Yeomanry, 10.3.1901 - 27.8.1902; discharged, 3.9.1902;
re-enlisted for service in the Great War and served with the Army Service Corps on the Western Front from 10.2.1917; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Army Service Corps, 1.12.1917; promoted Lieutenant, 1.6.1919;
subsequently served with the 4th (Birkenhead) Battalion, Cheshire Home Guard.
HE HAD PRIOR SERVICE WITH THE CHESHIRE RIFE VOLUNTEERS
WITH COPIES OF SERVICE PAPERS FOR HIS SERVICE WITH 21ST SQUADRON - CHESHIRE IMPERIAL YEOMANRY
WITH COPIES OF HIS SERVICE PAPERS FOR HIS WWI SERVICE WITH THE WEST LANCS DIVISIONAL TRAIN ARMY SERVICE CORPS AT HOME AND IN FRANCE
BY THE END OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR HE HAD ATTAINED THE RANK OF LIEUTENANT - SO WAS CLEARLY AGGRIEVED THAT HIS MEDALS WERE ISSUED TO HIM AS 2ND LIEUT - HENCE ATTEMPTED ERASURE OF \'2\'
DEFENCE MEDAL NAMED IN SMALL IMPRESSED CAPITALS IN THE STYLE OF \'BOOTS NAMING\'
WITH COPIES OF MEDAL AND CLASP ROLLS FOR THE QSA, BRITISH WAR MEDAL AND VICTORY MEDAL
COPIES OF MEDAL INDEX CARD
COPY OF PROBATE CALENDAR SHOWING THAT HE DIED IN 1948 - HIS HOME ADDRESS AT THE TIME BEING BEBINGTON CHESHIRE
HE APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN AN INSURANCE AGENT IN CIVILIAN EMPLOYMENT
COPY ENTRY FROM HOME GUARD LIST SHOWING SPEED WITH THE RANK OF LIEUTENANT IN THE 4TH CHESHIRE (BIRKENHEAD) BATTALION HOME GUARD
EXTENSIVE RESEARCH AND COPY PAPERSSOME PAPERS SUPPLIED ON CD - SOME IN HARD COPY
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GREAT EXAMPLE OF SERVICE UNDER 4 MONARCHS AND SCARCE NAMED HOME GUARD MEDALTO AN OFFICER
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