Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Boer War D.C.M. awarded to Sergeant, later Battery Sergeant-Major, G. E. Bowhay, Royal Garrison Artillery

Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (78258 Serjt: G. E. Bowhay. R.G.A.) officially impressed naming, light contact marks, good very fine £600-£800

D.C.M. London Gazette 27 September 1901.

George E. Bowhay attested for the Royal Garrison Artillery and served with 6 Company, Western Division, R.G.A. in South Africa during the Boer War (awarded the Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasps for Cape Colony, Transvaal, and Laing’s Nek; and the King’s South Africa Medal with two clasps). Advanced Battery Sergeant Major, he subsequently served with the Royal Garrison Artillery during the Great War on the Western Front from 8 October 1915 (awarded a 1914-15 Star trio).

Note: Bowhay’s five campaign medals; his E.VII.R. Long Service and Good Conduct Medal; and a D.C.M. with ‘officially engraved naming’ (and therefore most likely a later replacement) were sold in these rooms in May 2018.