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Auction: 25112 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 357

The campaign group of four awarded to Lance-Corporal G. Cassey, Royal Marines Light Infantry, who saw varied services ashore with the gallant Naval Brigade of Powerful during the Second Boer War

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Paardeberg, Driefontein (8401 Pte. G. Cassey, R.M, H.M.S. Powerful); 1914-15 Star (Po. 8401, Pte. G. Cassey. R.M.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Po. 8401 L. Cpl. G. Cassey. R.M.L.I.), very fine (4)

Just 28 Medals with 4 clasps issued to Naval & Marine personnel of Powerful.

George Cassey was born on 12 April 1878 at Salisbury, Wiltshire. Enlisting into the Royal Marines Light Infantry at Salisbury on 21 January 1896, he was at that time a baker like this father. Posted for the first tour of the new cruiser Powerful in June 1897, he was to serve with her on the China Station for the next two years. It was at the point of her return home that the Second Boer War broke out.

As a result, she was to land Cassey and his comrades, who formed the Bluejackets of the Naval Brigade from 19 October 1899, taking their two 12-pounder field guns with them. They soon found themselves in the thick of the action, sharing in four actions before being retired back to the Modder River in February 1900. Cassey was transferred to the books of Doris in March 1900 after the action at Driefontein, thence to the Monarch in June 1900. He was posted back home on 26 June 1900 and discharged in April 1908.

With the outbreak of the Great War, Cassey returned to the fold and was mobilised in August 1914, joining the Grafton. Posted to Montagua in January 1915, he was demobilised in July 1919 and was not entitled to a L.S. & G.C. Medal; sold together with copied research.

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Sold for
£1,800

Starting price
£320