Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private J. S. Robertson, Diamond Field Artillery, who was killed in action at Klip Drift on 7 March 1902

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Defence of Kimberley, Orange Free State, Transvaal (195 Gnr: J. S. Roberton [sic]. Diamond Fields Art:); Mayor of Kimberley’s Star 1899-1900, reverse hallmark with date letter ‘a’, unnamed as issued, lacking integral top riband bar, traces of lacquer, good very fine (2) £400-£500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Queen’s South Africa Medals for the Defence of Kimberley, Ladysmith and Mafeking.

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Provenance: Christie’s, July 1988.

John Samuel Robertson, an Overseer at De Beers, served in the Cape Mounted Rifles from 1875 to 1887 (entitled to a Cape of Good Hope General Service Medal with clasp Basutoland), and in the Umtali Rifles from 1896-97. He attested for the Diamond Field Artillery on 25 September 1899, and was killed in action at Klip Drift on 7 March 1902.