Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant James Beale, 15th Calgary Light Horse, late Fort Garry Horse and Worcestershire Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, South Africa 1901, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (7289 Sgt. J. Beale, 16th Coy. 5th Imp. Yeo.); British War and Victory Medals (117053 Cpl. J. Beale, F.G.H.) the first officially re-impressed; Colonial Auxiliary Forces L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (R.Q.M.S. J. Beale, 15th C.L.H.); Imperial Yeomanry L.S. & G.C. (129 Sjt. J. Beale, Worc. I.Y.) cleaned and mounted court style, together with Canadian Memorial Cross, G.VI.R. (117053 C.S.M. J. Beale) the suspension brooch bar inscribed ‘Christina Beale’, contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine or better (6) £600-700

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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Imperial Yeomanry L.S. & G.C. notified in Army Orders of February 1905.

C.A.F. L.S. & G.C. Canada Gazette 23 September 1922.

James Beale was born at Lewisham, Kent, on 16 April 1866. He served in the Boer War with the 16th (Worcestershire) Company 5th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry. He afterwards moved to Alberta, Canada, where he enlisted into the 15th Calgary Light Horse and served in a detachment from that unit with the Fort Garry Horse during the Great War. He died on 16 September 1945, aged 79, his widow, who survived him, being issued with a Canadian Memorial Cross on 15 January 1946. Sold with comprehensive research.