The Sid Thurgar Collection of Boer War Medals

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (F. Penny, Surgeon) engraved naming, lacquered, nearly extremely fine £240-£280

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Sid Thurgar Collection of Boer War Medals.

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Francis Penny, ‘formerly House Surgeon at the North Devon Infirmary, has received speedy promotion since he took the appointment of civil surgeon in the South African Field Force twelve months ago. In a letter to a friend at Barnstaple, Mr. Penny says: “I was coming home this month but have now been taken on as senior medical officer of Steinaeker’s Horse, so shall not be home for a year or so, as I hear it is to be a permanent corps, even after the War is over. I am to rig up in all the trappings and decorations of a captain in His Majesty’s Army, with the special tabs of the Medical Corps.” Captain Penny has latterly been stationed at Kaapsche Hoop (where, he says, he dug up enough gold to make a ring), but is now transferred to Komati Poort.’ (The North Devon Journal, 6 February 1902 refers).