The Bernard Harris Collection of Medals to the 1st Regiment, South African Infantry

Family Group:

Pair: Private R. A. Makins, 1st Regiment, South African Infantry
British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Pte. R. A. Makins. 1st. S.A.I.) glue residue to reverse of both, good very fine

Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-97, 1 clasp, Basutoland (Pte. J. G. Makins. P. A. Guard.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (J. J. Makin [sic]. C.G.R.) glue residue to reverse of both, good very fine (4) £300-£400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Bernard Harris Collection of Medals to the 1st Regiment, South African Infantry.

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Ralph Alfred Makins was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in 1894, and attested for the 1st South African Infantry in his home town on 23 March 1917. Posted to the Western Front he received a gunshot wound to the left elbow on 21 September 1917. Evacuated to the South African Hospital at Richmond, he spent over 6 months under medical supervision before being discharged to depot at Bordon on 8 July 1918. Makins was later discharged as permanently unfit for further military service at Wynberg on 27 December 1918.

Sold with copied service record.

J. J. Makin served during the Boer War as a Driver for the Cape Government Railways. Sold with copied roll entry, this additionally annotated: ‘working trains in theatre of war.’