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Pair: Lieutenant and Inspector of Works G. E. Dear, Royal Engineers Queen's South Africa...
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Pair: Lieutenant and Inspector of Works G. E. Dear, Royal Engineers
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (23701 F: of W: S:S: G. E. Dear, Rl. Engs:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (23701 S. Serjt: G. E. Dear. R.E.) extremely fine (2) £160-£200
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George Edmund Dear was born in Gosport, Hampshire, on 16 April 1870 and attested for the Royal Engineers at Gosport on 16 April 1889. He was advanced Staff-Sergeant, Royal Engineers, to do duty as Military Foreman of Works, on 6 April 1899, and served with the Engineers in South Africa during the Boer War. Promoted Quartermaster Sergeant, to do duty as Foreman of Works, on 6 April 1905, he was discharged from the Army at his own request, after 18 years’ service, on 26 August 1907. Subsequently appointed temporary Inspector of Works, Staff for Royal Engineer Services, with the honorary rank of Lieutenant, on 1 April 1917, he relinquished his commission on completion of service on 2 April 1920, retaining his rank of temporary Inspector of Works and Lieutenant. He was not awarded a Long Service and Good Conduct Medal; nor was he awarded a British War Medal; consequently this is his complete medallic entitlement. He died in 1946.
Sold with the recipient’s original Officer’s Record of Service and Royal Engineers Account Book; and an account book belonging to F. Dear, 5th Lancers.
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (23701 F: of W: S:S: G. E. Dear, Rl. Engs:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (23701 S. Serjt: G. E. Dear. R.E.) extremely fine (2) £160-£200
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George Edmund Dear was born in Gosport, Hampshire, on 16 April 1870 and attested for the Royal Engineers at Gosport on 16 April 1889. He was advanced Staff-Sergeant, Royal Engineers, to do duty as Military Foreman of Works, on 6 April 1899, and served with the Engineers in South Africa during the Boer War. Promoted Quartermaster Sergeant, to do duty as Foreman of Works, on 6 April 1905, he was discharged from the Army at his own request, after 18 years’ service, on 26 August 1907. Subsequently appointed temporary Inspector of Works, Staff for Royal Engineer Services, with the honorary rank of Lieutenant, on 1 April 1917, he relinquished his commission on completion of service on 2 April 1920, retaining his rank of temporary Inspector of Works and Lieutenant. He was not awarded a Long Service and Good Conduct Medal; nor was he awarded a British War Medal; consequently this is his complete medallic entitlement. He died in 1946.
Sold with the recipient’s original Officer’s Record of Service and Royal Engineers Account Book; and an account book belonging to F. Dear, 5th Lancers.
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Pair: Lieutenant and Inspector of Works G. E. Dear, Royal Engineers
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (23701 F: of W: S:S: G. E. Dear, Rl. Engs:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (23701 S. Serjt: G. E. Dear. R.E.) extremely fine (2) £160-£200
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George Edmund Dear was born in Gosport, Hampshire, on 16 April 1870 and attested for the Royal Engineers at Gosport on 16 April 1889. He was advanced Staff-Sergeant, Royal Engineers, to do duty as Military Foreman of Works, on 6 April 1899, and served with the Engineers in South Africa during the Boer War. Promoted Quartermaster Sergeant, to do duty as Foreman of Works, on 6 April 1905, he was discharged from the Army at his own request, after 18 years’ service, on 26 August 1907. Subsequently appointed temporary Inspector of Works, Staff for Royal Engineer Services, with the honorary rank of Lieutenant, on 1 April 1917, he relinquished his commission on completion of service on 2 April 1920, retaining his rank of temporary Inspector of Works and Lieutenant. He was not awarded a Long Service and Good Conduct Medal; nor was he awarded a British War Medal; consequently this is his complete medallic entitlement. He died in 1946.
Sold with the recipient’s original Officer’s Record of Service and Royal Engineers Account Book; and an account book belonging to F. Dear, 5th Lancers.
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (23701 F: of W: S:S: G. E. Dear, Rl. Engs:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (23701 S. Serjt: G. E. Dear. R.E.) extremely fine (2) £160-£200
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George Edmund Dear was born in Gosport, Hampshire, on 16 April 1870 and attested for the Royal Engineers at Gosport on 16 April 1889. He was advanced Staff-Sergeant, Royal Engineers, to do duty as Military Foreman of Works, on 6 April 1899, and served with the Engineers in South Africa during the Boer War. Promoted Quartermaster Sergeant, to do duty as Foreman of Works, on 6 April 1905, he was discharged from the Army at his own request, after 18 years’ service, on 26 August 1907. Subsequently appointed temporary Inspector of Works, Staff for Royal Engineer Services, with the honorary rank of Lieutenant, on 1 April 1917, he relinquished his commission on completion of service on 2 April 1920, retaining his rank of temporary Inspector of Works and Lieutenant. He was not awarded a Long Service and Good Conduct Medal; nor was he awarded a British War Medal; consequently this is his complete medallic entitlement. He died in 1946.
Sold with the recipient’s original Officer’s Record of Service and Royal Engineers Account Book; and an account book belonging to F. Dear, 5th Lancers.
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