Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (Lieut. H. T. Ommany, Kitchener’s Horse) extremely fine £200-240

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals relating to the Boer War formed by two brothers.

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Henry Travers Ommaney was born on 25 December 1849, the son of Major-General Edward Lacon Ommaney, Royal Engineers (b.1811 in Norfolk and d.1896) and Elizabeth (b.1816 in Madras). He entered Cheltenham College in January 1863 into Newick House and he was in the Classical Rugby Football XX from 1866-7. He left Cheltenham in June 1868 having completed just over five years. He joined the Indian Civil Service in 1868 and was appointed to Bombay in 1870. He served as Assistant to the Collector and Magistrate in Dharwar, Canara, Nassick and Khandeish where he was Forest Settlement Officer. He served as Assistant Collector and Magistrate at Bombay from 1884-6 and as Acting Inspector General of Police in 1888. He was Senior Collector and Magistrate in 1895 and retired in 1896. During the Second Boer War he served as Troop & Squadron Leader, (Lieutenant) in Kitchener's Fighting Scouts and was Chairman of the Repatriation Committee at Johannesburg. Lieutenant Ommany resigned from Kitchener’s Horse on 24 December 1900. He died at Hythe on 30 May 1936. With copied death certificate and other research; research on the unit.