A Collection of Awards to Chaplains formed by Philip Mussell

Pair: The Reverend P. Milne, Kimberley Town Guard

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Kimberley (Rev: P. Milne. Kimberley Town Gd:); Mayor of Kimberley’s Star 1899-1900, reverse hallmark with date letter ‘a’, unnamed as issued, with small collector’s number to reverse, small area of erasure before naming on QSA, nearly extremely fine (2) £500-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to Chaplains formed by Philip Mussell.

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Peter Milne served with the Kimberley Town Guard in South Africa from 1900-01, and subsequently with the North Bengal Mounted Rifles, Indian Army.

As the recipient was a civilian priest in Kimberley, rather than a member of the Army Chaplains’ Department, it is believed that his Q.S.A. was originally named (Pte. Rev: P. Milne...), and the ‘Pte.’ was subsequently erased, possibly by the recipient himself, thus accounting for the area of erasure before the naming.