Five: Major J. A. Douglas, Army Service Corps, late Imperial Yeomanry, who was awarded the Serbian Order of St. Sava for his work as a Railway Transport Officer 1915-16

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut. J. A. Douglas, Imp. Yeo.); 1914 Star (Capt. J. A. Douglas, R.T.E.); British War and Victory Medals (Major J. A. Douglas); Serbian Order of St. Sava, 4th class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels, the first with edge bruising and the last with one or two slightly bent and chipped arm points, and lower obverse centre, otherwise generally very fine (5) £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Barrett J. Carr Collection of Boer War Medals.

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James Archibald Douglas, who attended Merton College, Oxford, and was onetime a member of the Agra Volunteer Rifes, served as a Lieutenant in the Imperial Yeomanry in the Orange River Colony and in the Mafeking and Vryburg Districts of Cape Colony, prior to being appointed a Railway Staff Officer in July 1901. Thereafter, until January 1902, he was employed variously at Pretoria, Standerton and Kometi Poort.

Returning to uniform as a Captain, Temporary Major, on the Special List, in September 1914, Douglas was employed out in France in the Railway Transport Establishment from November 1914, but afterwards joined the British Mission to the Serbian Army, as a Train Conducting Officer, and was awarded the Serbian 4th Class Order of St. Sava (London Gazette 9 March 1917 refers). Latterly employed at the War Office, he resigned his commission in September 1919.