Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Siege of Beaconsfield Medal 1899-1900, obverse, shield, ‘Siege of Beaconsfield, 14 October 1899 - 15 February 1900, reverse, female figure of ‘Peace’, ‘Children’s Medal Presented by the Town Council 1900, Peace 1900’, unnamed, white metal, pierced with ring suspension; South Shields Medal for South Africa 1899-1900, obverse: Baden Powell, 32mm., white metal, pierced with ring suspension, Anglo-Boer War 100th Anniversary Medal 1902-2002; together with modern copies of the Queen’s South Africa Medal 1899-1902, no clasp and the Mayor of Kimberley’s Medal 1899-1900, first with edge bruising, very fine and better (5) £50-70

The small town of Beaconsfield lies about a mile south-east of the outskirts of Kimberley. Much to the indignation of its inhabitants, Kekewich originally excluded the town from his plans for the defence but, faced by so strong and indignant a protest, he was forced to provide for the defence of that place, though independently of the main defensive enclosure.