A Collection of Medals for the Anglo-Boer War

A Q.S.A. awarded to Captain (later Colonel) R. G. Keyworth, D.S.O., R.A., Artillery Adviser to ‘Dunster Force’ 1918

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (Capt. R. G. Keyworth, R.H.A.) nearly extremely fine £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals for the Anglo-Boer War.

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D.S.O. London Gazette 4 June 1917.

M.I.D. London Gazette 1 January 1916; 6 December 1916; 21 July 1917 and 21 February 1919.

Robert Geoffrey Keyworth was born on 24 January 1873. Commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 17 October 1892 and promoted to Lieutenant, October 1895; Captain, April 1900; Major, October 1909; Lieutenant-Colonel, September 1915 and Colonel, September 1920.

Served in the Boer War with the R.H.A. and R.F.A. A note with the lot states that he served with 9th Battery R.F.A.

In the Great War he was specially employed as Artillery Adviser to ‘Dunster Force’, 22 February-4 August 1918. ‘Dunster Force’ was commanded by Major-General Lionel Dunsterville, who operated in and around Baku on the Caspian Sea during early-mid 1918. Served in France and Flanders, 30 November 1914-28 November 1915; then in Greek Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, European Turkey and the Ægean Islands, January 1916-January 1918; Russia, 5 August-24 September 1918 and 25 September-11 November 1918. For his services he was four times mentioned in despatches; created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order and awarded the brevet of Colonel on 1 January 1919. Colonel Keyworth died on 24 September 1952. With copied research.