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Auction: 12002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 8

A Rare Boer War D.S.O. and Great War ´1918´ Second Award Bar Group of Six to Lieutenant-Colonel T.E.P. Wickham, Royal Horse Artillery, Wounded in Both Wars, He Commanded the 14th Brigade, R.H.A., on the Western Front from 1.12.1916 a) Distinguished Service Order, V.R., with Second Award Bar, silver-gilt and enamel, minor white enamel damage to lower obverse arm of cross, with integral top-riband bar b) Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, six clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (Lieut. T.E.P. Wickham, D.S.O., R.H.A.) c) King´s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (Lieut. T.E.P. Wickham. D.S.O. R.H.A.) d) 1914 Star, with copy Bar (Capt. T.E.P. Wickham, D.S.O. R.F.A.) e) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaves (Lt. Col. T.E.P. Wickham), light contact marks, therefore generally very fine (6) Estimate £ 2,800-3,200 D.S.O. London Gazette 27.9.1901 Thomas Edmund Palmer Wickham, Second Lieut., Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery ´In recognition of services during operations in South Africa.´ D.S.O. Second Award Bar London Gazette 1.1.1918 Thomas Edmund Palmer Wickham, D.S.O., Major (Acting Lieut.-Colonel), Royal Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Edmund Palmer Wickham, D.S.O. (1879-1927), the eldest son of R.W. Wickham, of Ebley Court, Stroud; educated at Marlborough; commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Artillery, 1898; served in South Africa, 1900-1902, including being present at the Relief of Kimberley, operations in the Orange Free State, February - May 1900, including operations at Paardeberg (18th-26th February), actions at Poplar Grove, Driefontein (wounded 10.3.1900), Vet River and Zand River (D.S.O.; M.I.D. London Gazette 10.9.1901); Lieutenant 16.2.1901; the Insignia, Warrant and Statutes for the D.S.O. were sent to the Commander-in-Chief in India, and presented at Meerut, 1.3.1903, at Church Parade, by the G.O.C., Bengal; advanced Major 30.10.1914; served during the Great War on the Western Front, 10.11.1914-17.12.1914, 17.1.1915-12.3.1915 (wounded 11.3.1915) and 10.4.1916-14.11.1917; commanded 14th Brigade Royal Horse Artillery, from 1.12.1916; served on the Italian front, 15.11.1917-23.3.1918 (Bar to D.S.O.; four times M.I.D. London Gazette 23.6.1915, 4.1.1917, 18.5.1917 and 14.12.1917); Lieutenant-Colonel 2.10.1918; Invested with his Second Award Bar by the King at Buckingham Palace, 29.6.1918; retired 7.11.1925; died suddenly at ´Averys, Ruspur, Sussex.´ During the Great War only 35 officers (including four in the Royal Artillery) received a Bar to a pre-War D.S.O. Provenance: Christie´s, April 1992

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