Six: Captain H. S. Cheshire, Indian Army Reserve of Officers, attached 1st Sappers & Miners, late Lumsden’s Horse

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Tpr., Lumsden’s Horse); 1914-15 Star (2/Lt., I.A.R.O. attd. 1/S.& M.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); Volunteer Force Long Service (India), G.V.R. (Captn., 1/Bihar Lt. Horse, (I.D.F.)), official correction to surname; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R. Coinage head (Hugh S. Cheshire), nearly extremely fine (6) £140-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Medals to Lumsden's Horse.

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Captain Hugh Stanley Cheshire was an engineer from the Assam-Bengal Railway prior to joining Lumsden’s Horse. He participated in the operations in the Cape Colony and Orange Free State but became ill with fever, was hospitalized and subsequently invalided to England after the surrender of Pretoria. During the Great War he served as an officer in the I.A.R.O. and Sappers & Miners. Later he served in the auxiliary forces of India and the Special Constabulary.