Family Medals

Medals belonging to three different members of the family - now deceased.

1. R.A.F. Long Service Medal 1975.
2. Three medals of the 1914 - 1918 Great War
3 Three medals of the Boer War.
Bars on the above read: (a) Talana, Defence of Ladysmith,
Orange Free State ,Transvaal,
Laing's Nek
(b) Cape Colony, Orange Free State,
Transvaal, South Africa 1902
(c) South Africa 1901
South Africa 1902

They are all kept in the brass box that Queen Mary sent to every serviceman at Christmas 1914. It held either chocolate or tobacco.