A Collection of Militaria to the Gloucestershire Regiment (28th and 61st Foot)

Three: Captain G. G. Pomeroy, South Staffordshire Regiment, late Gloucestershire Regiment, who was wounded and taken prisoner in the Jameson Raid

British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Rhodesia 1896 (Trooper G. G. Pomeroy, M.R.F.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut. G. G. Pomeroy. Glouc. Rgt.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, N. Nigeria 1902 (Lt. G. G. Pomeroy, Glouc: Rgt:) the first very fine, otherwise extremely fine (3) £1600-1800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Militaria to the Gloucestershire Regiment (28th and 61st Foot).

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The first medal sold in these rooms, 28 March 2002, ex Gordon Everson Collection.

Granville George Pomeroy was born at Bristol on 15 May 1878, the eldest of five sons. He was educated at Clifton College and served in the Somerset Militia. He attested for the Mashonaland Mounted Police sometime in 1895, and in the following year took part in the Jameson Raid, being shot through the left knee and taken prisoner. He was treated at Krugersdorp Field Hospital and was one of the twenty or so wounded prisoners who signed a letter of appreciation to the hospital staff for their kindness and attention. He was one of the last prisoners to be released, on 31 January 1896, and later that year took part in the operations in Rhodesia with the Matabeleland Relief Force.

Back in England Pomeroy obtained a commission with the 4th Somerset Light Infantry, as 2nd Lieutenant, in May 1897. Advanced to Lieutenant in November 1899, he took a regular commission in the 1st Battalion Gloucester Regiment in March 1900 and served with them in the Boer War, including the operations of the Drakensburg Defence Force and the seizing of Van Reenan’s Pass (Medal with 2 clasps). He was subsequently attached to the West African Frontier Force and took part in the operations in Nigeria in 1902 (Medal with Clasp). During the Great War he served in France as a Captain in the South Staffordshire Regiment, 12th Yorkshire Regiment, and later with the West African Field Force, attached to the Nigeria Regiment. He was latterly Assistant Commissioner of Police, North Nigeria, and died of malaria at Zungeru, Nigeria, on 30 March 1917.

Sold with a large file of research.