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Auction: 12002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 24

A Boer War D.C.M. Group of Seven to Quartermaster and Captain C. McPhail, Royal Army Veterinary Corps, Late Farrier Quartermaster Sergeant, Royal Field Artillery a) Distinguished Conduct Medal, E.VII.R. (48148 S: Sjt: Far: C. McPhail. 79th Bty: R.F.A.) b) Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (48148 S: S: Fr: C. McPhail 79th Bty: R.F.A.), rank partially officially corrected c) King´s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (48148 S. Serjt: -Far: C. McPhail. R.F.A.), top lugs neatly removed d) 1914-15 Star (Q.M. & Lieut. C. McPhail, D.C.M. A.V.C.) e) British War and Victory Medals M.I.D. Oak Leaves (Q.M. & Capt. C. McPhail) f) Army Long Service & G.C., E.VII.R. (48148 Far.Q.M.Sjt. C. McPhail. R.H.A.), light contact marks overall, therefore very fine, with Silver War Badge, reverse numbered ´518791´ (7) Estimate £ 1,400-1,600 D.C.M. London Gazette 27.9.1901 48148 S/Sgt. Farrier C. McPhail, 79th Battery, Royal Field Artillery M.I.D. London Gazette 16.1.1918 McPhail. Temp. Qr.-Mr. and Hon. Lt. C. (Egypt) Quartermaster and Captain Charles McPhail, D.C.M., born Edinburgh, 1871; enlisted Royal Artillery as Boy, 1885; posted Sergeant Farrier, 79th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, July 1895; served with the latter during the Second Boer War; Farrier Quartermaster Sergeant, 18.10.1904 (L.S. & G.C. 1905); discharged 21.10.1906, after 21 years and 232 days service; with the outbreak of the Great War was voluntarily employed with the Divisional Veterinary Hospital (Northumbrian Division), Newcastle, from August 1914; commissioned Temporary Quartermaster and Lieutenant, Royal Army Veterinary Corps, 21.2.1915; served in the Egyptian Theatre of War from 3.3.1915, and served as Quartermaster and Captain, Officer in Charge of the Base Depot of Veterinary Stores for the supply of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, November 1915-July 1919; Honorary Captain 21.2.1918; retired 1919; resided at ´24, Newport View, Headingley, Leeds´ in later life.

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