Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private H. W. Freislich, Cape Police and Kimberley Town Guard

Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-97, 1 clasp, Bechuanaland (Pte. H. W. Freislisch [sic]. C. Pol.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Kimberley (Pte. H. W. Frieslich [sic]. Kimberley Town Gd:); Mayor of Kimbelery’s Star 1899-1900, reverse hallmark with date letter ‘a’, the reverse inscribed, ‘H. W. Frieslich [sic], C Coy. K.T.G.’, lacking integral riband bar, good very fine and better (3) £600-800

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2006.

Herbert William Freislich was born in Clanwilliam, Cape Colony, on 26 March 1879 and enlisted in the Cape Police, District No. 1, on 3 May 1895 (giving his date of birth as 26 March 1877). He served with the Cape Police during the Bechuanaland Campaign of 1896-97, and was promoted Lance-Corporal on 3 January 1898 before being ‘dismissed for neglect of duty and insubordination’ on 10 March 1899. He subsequently served with the Kimberley Town Guard as a member of No. 1 Section, ‘C’ Company, as part of the Garrison at Kimberley between 14 October 1899 and 15 February 1900, where he was a member of Pickerings Redoubt No. 1. His brother Charles also served during the Siege of Kimberley and was killed in action on 25 November 1899.

Sold with copied medal roll extracts, service records, and other research.