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Thank you Frank. I was only looking in WO100/260.

It just seems so unfair, but, it was all down to interpretation at the time, I suppose.

A late issue Elandslaagte from the next DNW auction



QSA (7) CC Eland OFS DoL LN Belf 01 (3747 Sjt H Shepherd 2 Gordon Highrs.) a later issue impressed in small capitals.

Herbert George Shepherd was born in Islington, London, on 10 December 1871 and attested for the Gordon Highlanders on 26 February 1891. Promoted Corporal on 4 March 1893, and Sergeant on 26 June 1896, he served with the 2nd Battalion in India from September 1898, and then in South Africa from 23 September 1899 until 12 April 1901, during which period he was twice Mentioned in Despatches by General Sir George White (London Gazettes 8 February 1901 and 10 September 1901). Posted to the 1st Battalion, he was promoted Colour Sergeant on 6 December 1902.

On 15 February 1908 Shepherd was reported absent without leave. He was arrested on 19 February, and was tried by the Civil Power on 24 February on two counts of theft. Sentenced to 6 months’ imprisonment with hard labour, he was reduced to the ranks and was discharged on 28 March 1908, forfeiting his entire 17 years’ service. He also forfeited his original Queen’s South Africa Medal.

In later life Shepherd had his Queen’s South Africa Medal restored to him, and lived at the Royal Star and Garter Home for Disabled Sailors and Soldiers, at Richmond, Surrey, and died there on 20 December 1938, being buried in the Soldiers Cemetery in Richmond.

My brother and I used to own Reverend Tuckey's medals for a short time.


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CBE (Military);
QSA (6) CC, Eland, DoL, OFS, Laing’s Nek, Belf (Rev. J. G. W. Tuckey. C. to F.);
KSA (2) (Rev J. G. W. Tuckey. C. to F.);
1914 Star, with clasp (Rev: J. G. W. Tuckey. A.C.D.);
BWM and VM with M.I.D. oak leaves (Rev. J. G. W. Tuckey.);
Jubilee 1935;
Coronation 1937

CBE LG 3 June 1919.

James Grove White Tuckey was born in June 1864, the second son of Dr. Charles Caulfield Tuckey, and was educated at King’s School, Canterbury and Trinity College, Oxford, and later studied at Heidelberg. A lecturer at Durham University from 1893 to 1895, he was ordained in the same period and appointed Chaplain of University College and of St. Margaret’s, Durham.

In 1895, however, he became a Chaplain to the Forces, serving first at Aldershot and then at York, whence he was embarked for South Africa on the outbreak of hostilities in October 1899. Subsequently one of just five Chaplains present at Elandslaagte, Lombard’s Kop and the defence of Ladysmith; and afterwards in the actions at Laing’s Nek, Belfast and Lydenburg, he was advanced to Chaplain 3rd Class and Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 16 April 1901). Then from 1902-04 he did duty at Middleberg in the Transvaal, before coming home to an appointment at Caterham. Having been advanced to Senior Chaplain at Woolwich Garrison by the time of the outbreak of the Great War, he quickly went out to France as Senior Chaplain, 4th Division, on 24 August 1914, shortly thereafter transferring to III Corps and thence to the 2nd Army in 1915. Appointed Assistant Chaplain-General, Rouen Area, in 1916, later in the year he returned home to Southern Command, in which capacity he was still employed at the War’s end. He was thrice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 19 October 1914, 22 June 1915, and 1 January 1916), created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and appointed Honorary Chaplain to H.M. the King.

Having then been placed on the Retired List as a Chaplain 1st Class in 1923, Tuckey briefly served as Honorary Chaplain to the Bishop of Salisbury before being appointed Church of England Representative on the Interdenomination Advisory Committee at the War Office in 1935. He had, meanwhile, also been appointed Canon Residentiary of Ripon Cathedral, in which capacity he remained employed until 1945. He died in October 1947, his only son John having been killed in action on the Somme as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 13th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment in August 1916.

David
Thank you showing a remarkable group of medals awarded to a remarkable man. I would have found it very difficult to part with, had the group been in my collection!
Regards
Brett

From the next DNW sale.


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QSA (5) Eland DoL OFS Tr LN (Lieut: C. C. Allsopp, Kitchener’s F.S.);
KSA (2) (Lieut: C. C. Allsop. Kitchener’s F.S.)

C C Allsopp was present at Elandslaagte and the Defence of Ladysmith as a Trooper (No. 283) in the Natal Mounted Rifles. He afterwards served in the Utrecht Mounted Police before being commissioned into Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts in 1901, in which year he was wounded in the fierce action at Tweefontein on 14 November. On that occasion, the 2nd Fighting Scouts acted as the rearguard.