Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Albert Redclift, Leading Man of Stores, Cape Victualling Yard, South Africa

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Leading Man of Stores); Imperial Service Medal, G.V.R., coinage head (Albert Redclift) together with Phoenix Lodge (Simons Town) Past Master’s Jewel, 9 carat gold, inscribed on the reverse ‘Presented to W.Bro. A. Redcliff by the Phoenix Lodge as a token of esteem’, extremely fine and rare (3) £150-200

A total of only eight recipients are shown on the naval roll for the Cape Victualling Yard, only two as no clasp medals, this rate probably unique on a Q.S.A. Albert Redclift was awarded the Imperial Service Medal on 4 May 1921.