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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 791

(x) Six: Company Sergeant-Major C. H. Jarvis, Cape Auxiliary Horse Transport Corps, late Kimberley Volunteer Regiment, who served at the Defence of Kimberley

British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Rhodesia 1896, no clasp (Troopr. C. H. Jarvis. M.R.F.), engraved naming; Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Kimberley (593 Pte. C. H. Jarvis. Kimberley Vol: Regt.); 1914-15 Star (Pte. C. H. Jarvis 7th Infantry); British War and Victory Medals 1914-19 (C.S.M. C.H. Jarvis C.A.H.T.C.); Mayor of Kimberley's Star 1899-1900, hallmark for Birmingham 1900, mounted court-style, good very fine (6)

Charles Herbert Jarvis was born around 1873 at Adelaide in the Eastern Cape, the husband of Elizabeth Lillian Jarvis of 1st Avenue, Kenilworth, Kimberley, South Africa. He served as a Trooper with the Matabeleland Relief Force in 1896 and as Private in the 2nd Battalion, Kimberley Volunteer Regiment during the Boer War before taking civilian employment as a timekeeper. Attesting at Kimberley for the Cape Auxiliary Horse Transport Corps on 1 April 1917, he travelled to France aboard Euripidies and arrived on 23 May 1917. Jarvis returned home at the cessation of hostilities aboard Ingoma, disembarking at Cape Town on 17 July 1919; sold with copied service record and research which notes total strength of the newly-formed Cape Auxiliary Horse Transport Corps as 6214 men in 1916.

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Sold for
£850

Starting price
£420