Four: Captain B. G. F. Garnett, East Surrey Regiment, who was wounded on the Somme in August 1916
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (Capt. B. G. F. Garnett, E. Surrey Rgt.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. B. G. F. Garnett); Coronation 1911, good very fine and better (4) £350-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Brian Kieran Collection.

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Garnett served as C.O. of ‘D’ Company, 4th (Militia) Battalion, East Surrey Regiment in operations in Cape Colony in April-May 1902, four Companies being allocated to the Namaqualand Field Force for the relief of O’okiep and participating in the action at Steinkopon on 28 April, and the other four to garrison duties on the blockhouse line in Sterkstroom District. Garnett had been advanced to Captain in March 1902; see Brian Kieran’s O’okiep for further mention of Garnett. During the Great War, he was embarked for France in February 1916, where, in the following month, he temporarily commanded the 7th Battalion at the Hohenzollern Redoubt. Subsequently appointed C.O. of ‘B’ Company, he saw action on the Somme, including the attack north of Ovillers on 12 August, when he led his company to their objective in the face of heavy machine-gun fire and bombing. He was wounded, one of 170 casualties suffered by his battalion that day, and saw no more active service.