Orders, Decorations and Medals

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (1340 Pte. J. Pizey, Rifle Brigade), extremely fine £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Cheshire and Manchester Regiments, Rifle Brigade and Royal Green Jackets formed by the late David Boniface.

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The recipient was taken prisoner at Grootvlei on 26 December 1900, while serving in ‘F’ Company, 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade, under Captain Radclyffe, which unit ‘made a fine stand ... Sergeant Angell and 18 men were surrounded, and after firing away all their ammunition were taken prisoners’ (The Rifle Brigade Chronicle, 1900, refers); in addition, eight men were killed and 31 wounded (see Jason Grover’s article, The Rifle Brigade near Grootvlei, Boxing Day 1900, O.M.R.S. Journal, Winter 1995, for further details).