Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Major F. G. Maunde-Thompson, Royal Artillery
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (Lieut., R.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 date clasps (Lieut., R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Major), together with three documents relating to his father Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, G.C.B., I.S.O.’s appointment as a Freeman of the Company of Stationers, very fine (4) £130-160

Major Francis George Maunde-Thompson entered the army in 1900, serving in the ranks for nearly five months with the City Imperial Volunteers. He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in May 1900 with which regiment he remained until his retirement from the British Army in March 1923. Sold with a quantity of research, including several pages from Dictionary of National Biography relating to his father who was the director of the British Museum.