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Auction: 12002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 6

A Good ´Boer War´ C.M.G. Group of Four to Colonel E.H. Pickwoad, Who Commanded the Royal Artillery at Talana, Dundee and During the Defence of Ladysmith a) The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Companion´s (C.M.G.) breast Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with integral silver-gilt riband buckle b) Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Lieut: E.H. Pickwoad. D/2nd Bde. R.A.) c) Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, five clasps, Cape Colony, Talana, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lt: Col: E.H. Pickwoad. C.M.G. R.F.A.), partially officially corrected d) King´s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (Colonel E.H. Pickwoad. C.M.G. R.F.A.), generally very fine or better (4) Estimate £ 1,200-1,600 C.M.G. London Gazette 27.9.1901 Lieutenant-Colonel Edwin Hay Pickwoad. ´In recognition of services during the operations in South Africa.´ Colonel Edwin Hay Pickwoad, C.M.G. (1853-1932), commissioned Lieutenant, Royal Artillery, 1873; served with "D" Battery, 2nd Brigade, Royal Artillery in Afghanistan 1878-80; advanced Major, and appointed Commander of Artillery in South Africa, 1889; with the outbreak of the Second Boer War he was serving as a Lieutenant-Colonel and commanded the 2nd Brigade, Royal Artillery; he commanded the Artillery at Talana, Dundee, Farquhar´s Farm and during the Defence of Ladysmith; he was severely wounded at Ladysmith, 1.3.1900 (C.M.G.; M.I.D. four times); retired Colonel 1903, but was engaged in the purchase of horses for the B.E.F. in August 1914, operating from his residence at Haversham Manor, Buckinghamshire.

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