VINTAGE & RARE PRE WW1 BRITISH BOER WAR SERVICE MEDAL CAPTAIN NEW ZEALAND RIFLES

Description

Offered is a Boer War Queen’s South Africa Service medal to Captain Richard Wellesley Benjamin Chambers, who served with the 9th Contingent of the New Zealand Forces in South Africa during the Boer War.

Queen’s South Africa Medal with campaign bars TRANSVAAL & SOUTH AFRICA 1902, sloped engraved to: Capt. R. W. B. CHAMBERS. N.Z.M.R. 9/Cont. (Medal retains majority of original silver frosting). Medal rolls confirm award with all bars.

Richard Wellesley Benjamin Chambers, a clerk in the Commandant’s Office, Wellington, and late of the 3rd Dragoon Guards and Manchester Regiment, attested for the 9th N.Z. Contingent and was embarked in the S.S. Devon in March 1901. Appointed a Lieutenant & Quarter-Master on the Battalion Staff, North Island Regiment, he served in the Transvaal and gained advancement to Captain; sold with copied research and roll confirmation – he was sent his Medal & 2 clasps in 1904.