Lot 4264

Description

Australia. Group of Eight. Distinguished service Order (GVR). Order of the British Empire, second type military officer's breast badge; Queen's South Africa Medal 1899, four bars; Cape Colony; Rhodesia; Orange Freestate; Transvaal King's South Africa Medal, two bars, South Africa 1901; South Africa 1902; 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal (M.I.D.); Defence Medal. Sgt/Col S.E. Norris, NSW Bushmen/Liverpool REgt. QSA and trio impressed. KSA engraved. Others unnamed. Very fine. $ DSO 1 Jan 1917. OBE 2 June 1943. Together with: extract from 'Australian Contingents to South Africa', extract from 1924 UK Army List, showing recipient was present at Eland's River; copy of nominal roll B Coy CBC; extract from ' The Australians in the Boer War-Siege at Eland's Riber'. Research on Norris family; and extract from 'Who's Who 1932'. Samuel Edward Norris was born at Mudgee NSW on 8 May 1874. He served in South Africa with the NSWCBC transferring to the Liverpool Regt. as 2nd Lt on 19 May 1900. He commanded 4th Btn the King's Regt. in 1918 and commanded 1st Gloustershire Btn Homeguard during the Second World War.