Four: Gunner G. T. Gutteridge, 62nd Battery, Royal Field Artillery

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Modder River, Paardeberg, Johannesburg, South Africa 1901 (22836 Gnr., 62 B., R.F.A.); 1914-15 Star (57574 Gnr., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (57574 Gnr., R.A.) good very fine and better (4) £150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals for the Anglo-Boer War.

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George Gutteridge was born in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. A Labourer by occupation, he attested for the Royal Artillery at Slough on 27 September 1897, aged 18 years, 9 months. He served as a Gunner with the 62nd Battery R.F.A., 26 September 1899-November 1901, taking part in the battle of Modder River:

The 6 guns of the 62nd Battery joined the action at Modder River on 28 November 1899, ‘spectacularly, they rumbled into battle west of the railway line the 62nd Battery which had covered the 62 miles from Orange River in 28 hours, at the cost of six horses dead in their traces, and forty later to be destroyed’ (Battles of the Boer War, by W. Baring, refers). The battery’s conduct in the battle was praised in Lord Methuen’s despatch of 1 December 1899.

Service in South Africa was followed by that in India, November 1901-November 1904, after which he was transferred to the Army Reserve and then discharged on 26 September 1909. Re-enlisting with the R.F.A. for the Great War, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 2 February 1915. He was transferred to the R.A.S.C. on 6 April 1918. With copied service papers, roll extracts and m.i.c. With copied service papers.