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Auction: 12002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 22

A Scarce Boer War D.C.M. Group of Four to Sergeant W. Carruthers, Cape Garrison Artillery a) Distinguished Conduct Medal, E.VII.R. (Serjt: W. Carruthers. Cape Gar: Art:) b) Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, two clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (117 Serjt: W. Carruthers. C.G. Arty:) c) King´s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (117 Serjt: W. Carruthers. Cape G.A.), top lugs neatly removed d) Coronation 1902, bronze, good very fine (4) Estimate £ 1,400-1,800 D.C.M. London Gazette 31.10.1902 Sergeant W. Carruthers, Cape Garrison Artillery 117 Sergeant W. Carruthers, D.C.M., Cape Garrison Artillery -´This corps was embodied in October 1899, the strength then being 373... During 1900 they were chiefly employed on the western railway and west of the line. A section was for some months operating under Sir C. Warren and other leaders against the Griqualand rebels. The corps assisted in garrisoning various important posts. Some were in Jacobsdal when that town was attacked 25th October 1900, and some were in the relieving force... In 1901 detachments of this corps garrisoned, along with the Cape Town Highlanders and various locally raised troops, the towns in the extreme west of Cape Colony and sundry posts right up to the border of German South-West Africa, which were successfully held against repeated attacks. A detachment was part of the little garrison of Ookiep´ (The Colonials in South Africa 1899-1902, J. Stirling, refers); after the Boer War Carruthers paid for the creation of the Carruthers Trophy, ´a magnificient silver cigar box with a bronze gun mounted on top, was present in 1925 by a retired Sergeant of the South African Permanent Garrison Force, who went to South America and made a condsiderable sum of money. The Trophy, which adorns the officers mess at the Castle, has not yet been won by any of the "citizen" forces, the 1st and 2nd Companies of the S.A.P.G.A. being the past holders´ (The Argus, 1.3.1929, refers). One of three D.C.M.´s to the Regiment for the Boer War.

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