Beschreibung:

Family Group to ‘Gale’: Second Boer War & Great War LSGC Group of 3 awarded to Staff Sergeant Frank Gale, 1st Battalion King’s Dragoon Guards, comprising: Queen’s South Africa Medal, 1899-1902, 3rd type reverse, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4680 Sgt. F. Gale. 1st Dgn: Gds:), British War Medal, 1914-1919 (1DG-4680 S-Sjt. F. Gale. 1-D. Gds.), Army Long Service & Good Conduct Medal, G V R (S/ Sjt. Instr. F. Gale. 1st Dragoon Guards); first medal officially impressed, with crude correction to rank, second officially impressed, latter erased and renamed in a running script, medals swing mounted on bar with reverse pin for wear, and mounted on board for display. Old cabinet tone, a few marks to QSA, otherwise very fine. And: India ‘North West Frontier’ and WWII LSGC Group of 5 to Flight Sergeant C G Gale, RAF, comprising: India General Service Medal, 1936-39, single clasp, North West Frontier 1937-39 (366285 Sgt C. G. Gale. R.A.F.), Burma Star, Defence & War Medals, 1939-1945, Royal Air Force Long Service & Good Conduct Medal, G VI R (366285 F. Sgt. C. G. Gale. R.A.F.); first and last officially impressed, remainder unnamed as issued, medals swing mounted on bar with reverse pin for wear, and mounted on board for display. Toned, extremely fine. (8) Staff Sergeant Frank Gale was for a time Staff Sergeant Instructor with the 7th Upper Provinces Horse, and was awarded his LSGC medal in February 1919, with his BWM his only WWI entitlement. Sold with several pages of useful information relating to Staff Sergeant Frank Gale, including copy roll mentions and copy MIC.