Boer War Queen’s South Africa Medal to Captain Horace Dixon Mayhew, who served with both the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers & the 4th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment during the Boer War.
Queen's South Africa Medal measures 36mm wide and is a circular silver medal with claw and swivel ribbon bar suspension, with CAPE COLONY & SOUTH AFRICA 1902 clasps; the face with the veiled crowned head and shoulders portrait of Queen Victoria facing left, circumscribed ‘VICTORIA REGINA ET IMPERATRIX’ (Victoria Queen and Empress), signed ‘G. W. de Saulles’ (for George William de Saulles, 1862-1903, Chief Engraver to the Royal Mint); the reverse with the full-length helmeted figure of Britannia, a standard in her left hand, her right arm extended with a laurel wreath, her shield and trident on the ground behind her, soldiers marching in a landscape beyond, warships near the coast beyond, signed ‘G. W. de Saulles’; attributed on the edge in correct officer's sloped style Capt: H. D. MAYHEW. R. Welsh Fus: on correct ribbon.
Horace Dixon Mayhew was born on the 11th June 1874, Hindly, Lancashire and was the son of Horace Mayhew and Mary Helena Dixon. He was appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers in February 1892. Advanced to Captain in July 1896, he served in Cape Colony during the Boer War (Medal & 2 clasps) with the 3rd Battalion, R.W.F. and also attached to the 4th Yorkshire Regiment. He resigned his commission on his return home in May 1903; sold with copied research. He is sometimes listed in civilian life as a mining engineer and died 12th August 1906, in Sydney, Nova Scotia.
The medal was instituted in 1899 to be awarded to participants in the Boer War. Rarely will you see a 3rd Battalion (Militia) officer's Q.S.A. come up for sale.
