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Auction: 12002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 73

Four: Major C.A.A. Hankey, Highland Light Infantry, Late Trooper, Murray´s Horse Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Natal (Tpr: C. Hankey. Murray´s Horse); 1914-15 Star (Capt: C.A.A. Hankey, High: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. C.A.A. Hankey), generally good very fine (4) Estimate £ 180-220 Major Charles Austin Alers Hankey, born 1868; educated at Sherbourne; moved to South Africa and becamed a Planter in Natal; served with Murray´s Horse during the Second Boer War; returned to the UK by the outbreak of the Great War and was comissioned Temporary Lieutenant 14th Battalion Highland Light Infantry; he was attached 2nd Battalion and served with them in the French Theatre of War, from 30.9.1915 (wounded); served as Assistant Provost Marshal, Glasgow, from 4.3.1918; served as Assistant Provost Marshal (Temporary Major), Winchester, August 1918-April 1920; retired Honorary Major 1920.

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