Three: Captain L. H. D.’O Moule, East Lancashire Regiment, attached Southern Nigeria Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut., E. Lanc. Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lt., E. Lanc. Rgt.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, S. Nigeria 1902-03 (Lieut., S.N. Regt.) minor contact marks and one or two edge bruises, very fine and better, scarce (3) £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Richard Magor Collection of Medals Relating to India and Africa, and other Fine Awards.

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Louis Horsford D’Oyley Moule, who commenced his military career in the Cape Mounted Rifles and was a veteran of the punitive expedition to Griqualand West in 1897, was gazetted to the 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant in May 1900, direct from his old regiment out in South Africa. Subsequently employed in the operations in Cape Colony with the Colonial Division, and in the Transvaal and Orange Free State with Lord Methuen’s Flying Column, and afterwards in a mobile column, he was advanced to Lieutenant in March 1902.

Moule transferred in the same year to the Southern Nigeria Regiment, and quickly witnessed further active service in assorted operations against local tribesmen, largely under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel W. C. G. Heneker, D.S.O., Connaught Rangers. He was appointed a Captain in the 8th (Service) Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment in September 1914.