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Auction: 20003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 367

Five: Captain G. L. Derriman, Grenadier Guards, late Major, South African Constabulary, who died of wounds on 7 August 1915 on the Western Front

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Major G. L. Derriman. S.A.C.); King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Maj: G. L. Derriman, S.A.C.); 1914-15 Star (Capt. G. L. Derriman. G. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. G. L. Derriman.), nearly extremely fine (5)

Gerard Lysley Derriman was born in 1870, the son of Admiral Derriman, Royal Navy and was educated at Eton. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards in 1899, during the Boer War he served on the Staff of the Imperial Yeomanry and then with the South African Constabulary until 1904.

Appointed the Chief Constable of Shropshire in 1908, he returned to the Grenadier Guards and served in France with the 2nd Battalion and died of wounds on 7 August 1915, aged 45. Derriman is buried in the Le Treport Military Cemetery. His Medals were issued to his widow, living at Longfield, Market Drayton. He is commemorated upon the Shrewsbury Police Great War Memorial at Police HQ on Monkmoor Road, the most senior serviceman commemorated.

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£800

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