Lot 3253

Description

Pair: Distinguished Conduct Medal (type 1 trophy of arms, a Taylor's copy); Queen's South Africa Medal 1899, (type 2 reverse with trace of ghost dates), - with six clasps - Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen, and with unofficial MID emblem. First medal unnamed, 81 Pte C.F.Selmes, N.S.W., A.M.C. on second medal. Named medal impressed. Display mounted, first uncirculated, second nearly extremely fine.

DCM: LG 27/9/1901, p6329 to Pte G.F.Selmes, NSW Bearer Coy.

MID: LG 16/4/1901, p2607 to Pte G.F.Selmes, NSW Bearer Coy.

George Francis Selmes, 1st Contingent Army Medical Corps; Emb.28Oct1899; RTA 13Dec1900 arriving on 08Jan1901.

George Selmes had been a Constable for 3 years in the NSW Police Force attached to No.3 police station before his departure to South Africa as a member of the bearer section of the A.M.C. After his return, Constable Selmes continued on with his police service, was promoted to Constable First Class and transferred to Traffic Police. In July 1902 he resigned and moved to settle in Johannesburg, South Africa. His mother was a resident of Kogarah in Sydney, NSW.

With unit medal rolls and copies of Gazette entries.