Lot 102
Colour Service with 4 Monarchs
"Behind The Wire" - Medal and Militaria Sale | M25001
Auction: 17 September 2025 at 14:00 BST
Description
The Boer War, Great War, Home Guard Long & Meritorious Service Group of 8 awarded to Warrant Officer Class 2 Alfred Gauntlett, Royal Field Artillery comprising, Queen’s South Africa Medal, 3rd type, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, (28356 Tptr: A. Gauntlett. 9th Bty: R.F.A.), King’s South Africa Medal, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, (28356 Tptr: A. Gauntlett 9th Bty: R.F.A.), 1914 Star with original Aug-Nov clasp, (28356 Sjt. A. Gauntlett. R.F.A.), 1914-1920 British War and Victory Medals (28356 W.O.Cl.2. A. Gauntlett. R.A.), 1939-45 Defence Medal, unnamed as issued, Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, GVR, (28356 By: S Mjr. A. Gauntlett. R.F.A.), Army Meritorious Service Medal, GVIR, (1019453 W. O. Cl2. A. Gauntlett. R.A.), contemporarily mounted for wear, naming on MSM very feint, otherwise, lightly toned very fine (8)
LS&GC Army Order 125 of 1917
Alfred Gauntlett was born in 1884 in Woolwich, he joined the Royal Horse Artillery on the 6th of June 1898 for 12 years, stating that he was 14 years and 4 months old, on enlistment he was 4 feet 10 and a half inches tall. He was promoted to Trumpeter on the 1st of September 1899 and sailed for South Africa on the 29th of January 1900, serving overseas until 1905. He landed in France with 14 Brigade Royal Field Artillery on the 23rd of August 1914, earning the 1914 Star and clasp, he transferred to the Royal Engineers on the 22nd of August 1917 and transferred back to the Royal Field Artillery on the 4th of November 1918. He served in the Home Guard during World War Two and died in 1974.
Sold with Original Pay Book, two Original Photographs in uniform, Cavalry Training Provisional 1904 Handbook, Signalling Regulation 1904 Handbook, Certificate of Signalling, 1905, Original Shoeburyness Gunnery Certificate, 1908, 6 Bound “Jeppe’s Maps”, One Trench Map Ovillers, Somme, corrected to 26th July 1916.
