Pair: Sergeant J. T. Blackmore, Devonshire Regiment

India General Service 1895, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (4403 Lce. Corpl. J. T. Blackmore. 1st Bn. Devon Regt.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Natal, South Africa 1901 (4403 Sgt. J. T. Blackmore. Devon: Regt.) edge bruising and contact marks, polished, nearly very fine (2) £300-£400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Peter and Dee Helmore.

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Dix Noonan Webb, October 1997 (IGS only).

John Thomas Blackmore was born in Deptford, Greenwich, in 1874. A Clerk by occupation, he enlisted for the Devonshire Regiment on 22 August 1895. Posted to the 1st Battalion stationed at Peshawar, India, the battalion joined the Tirah Field Force at Kohat on 8 October 1897. Wounded by a severe gunshot wound to the left foot during the action at Karappa on 25 October 1897, he was promoted Corporal and subsequently served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa in 1900 only to be invalided home in 1901. It was whilst as a Colour Sergeant with the 1st Battalion at Tidworth that he died on 22 June 1909, at the age of 35. At the time of his death he was under open arrest and an inquest found he had shot himself due to insanity.

Sold with a postcard depicting the recipient’s military funeral; and copied research.