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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 158

A Boer War D.S.O. Group of Three to Major A.S. Grant, Royal Highlanders, Attached Armoured Trains
a) Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar, obverse central medallion loose
b) Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut: A.S. Grant, 2nd. Rl: Highldrs.)
c) King's South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (Lt. A.S. Grant. D.S.O. Rl. Hgrs.), light contact marks, otherwise nearly extremely fine (3)

D.S.O. London Gazette 31.10.1902 Lieutenant Archibald Seafield Grant, The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
'In recognition of services during the operations in South Africa.'

Major Archibald Seafield 'Jackson' Grant, D.S.O., born Paddington, London, February 1878, the son of Major Francis Grant, Oxfordshire Light Infantry, and educated at Eton; Commissioned Royal Highlanders, January 1899, and served with the Second Battalion in South Africa from October 1899, taking part in the advance on Kimberley, including the action at Magersfontein; operations in Cape Colony, south of Orange River, 1899; operations in Cape Colony, November 1900 to May 1902; promoted Lieutenant, July 1900; volunteered for service with armoured trains and sent to command one of the De Aar-Kimberley-Mafeking line, and later employed on the Staff; Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 29.7.1902), and created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order; promoted Captain; 15.2.1906; served during the Great War as Deputy Assistant Director of Railway Transport (entitled to 1914 Star and Bar trio), and Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 17.2.1915); promoted Major, 1.9.1915; died, Stratford-upon-Avon, December 1960.

Provenance: Spink, July 1988

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