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Folks, I am looking for the QSA to 87 Cpl H. C. Crawhall C.I.V. which sold Noonans 20 Aug 2020 (Jack Webb Collection)

I wonder if anyone on here might have the subject QSA? Or, knows of its whereabouts?

If so, I would very much like to buy it, if it is a medal you might consider parting with.

He was not a relation of any kind, it is simply collector interest. I am presently researching Hugh as I have a silver shooting medal awarded to him.

Many thanks,

Owen

Picture courtesy of Spink

QSA (6) Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (Sgn: Capt. E. W. St. V. Ryan. C.I.V.);
British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col. E. W. St Vincent-Ryan.);
TD GV HM 1919

Edmond William St. Vincent-Ryan was born in 1861. He served in the 16th Middlesex (London Irish) Volunteers, ranked Surgeon Captain in 1898, and proceeded to South Africa with that rank in 1900 with the City of London Imperial Volunteers on the S.S. Gaul. Although he was officially Medical Officer of the Infantry Battalion During the Boer War, he in fact served with the Mounted Infantry.

St. Vincent-Ryan was promoted Major in the Territorial Force in 1908 and served during the Great War with the Royal Army Medical Corps, initially in Malta, from September 1914-March 1916, being promoted Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel on 19 November 1914.

He served in Salonika from June 1916-November 1917 and then with the Italian Expeditionary Force on the Italian Front until June 1918. Diagnosed with Tuberculosis at Cremona on 3 April 1918, he died at Pendyffryn Hall Sanitorium, Dwygyfylich, Wales on 24 August 1919.

Since the Jack Webb collection in August 2020, medals to the CIV have been hard to find.

The Boer War DCM group to Sgt W J Oark is here.

Picture courtesy of Noonan's

QSA (4) Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (1438 Pte. R. H. Byng, C.I.V.);
Natal (1) 1906 (Lt. H. R. Byng, Natal Rangers) engraved in running script as issued to officers

Provenance: Jack Webb Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, August 2020.

Harold Robert Byng was born at Portsea Island, Hampshire in 1874, the son of Lieutenant Arthur H. Byng, RN. Belonging to an old Essex family, he was first cousin to Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, and also to Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng, author and sinologist.

An engineer by profession, Byng enlisted into the Artists Rifles in 1895 and served with their City Imperial Volunteers detachment in South Africa during the Boer War with the Infantry Battalion. He later served as a Lieutenant in the Natal Rangers. His later career saw him take charge of the Borneo Railways for the British North Borneo Chartered Co. before retiring to Little Easton, Essex in 1928. He died there, aged 63, in 1938.

The pair to Private/Lieutenant Byng sold yesterday for a hammer price of GBP 950. Total GBP 1,224. R 27,160. AUD 2,290. NZD 2,530. CAD 2,110. USD 1,540. EUR 1,410

Picture courtesy of Lockdales

QSA (2) CC OFS (1006 Pte W S Thomas C.I.V.)