The Collection of Medals to the Cheshire and Manchester Regiments, Rifle Brigade and Royal Green Jackets formed by the late David Boniface Three: Quarter-Master & Captain J. Walter, Rifle Brigade Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902 (8372 Q.M. Serjt., Rifle Brigade); Coronation 1911, privately engraved, ‘J. Walter, Qr. Mr., Rifle Brigade’; Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (8372 Sjt. Mjr., Rif. Brig.), generally very fine or better (3) £250-300 Footnote James Walter ‘enlisted in the Rifle Brigade on 17 August 1886 and for many years was on the Permanent Staff of the 5th Battalion, being Sergeant-Major from 1903 until 1906, when he was promoted Quarter-Master. He finally retired on medical grounds as a Captain in 1918’ (The Rifle Brigade Chronicle, 1936 refers). Having won entitlement to the above described Queen’s South Africa Medal & clasps for service in the 5th Battalion - the Queen’s Own Royal Tower Hamlets Militia - Walter was stationed at Minister in the U.K. throughout the Great War and advanced to Q.M. and Captain in February 1916. He died in October 1951.
The Collection of Medals to the Cheshire and Manchester Regiments, Rifle Brigade and Royal Green Jackets formed by the late David Boniface Three: Quarter-Master & Captain J. Walter, Rifle Brigade Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902 (8372 Q.M. Serjt., Rifle Brigade); Coronation 1911, privately engraved, ‘J. Walter, Qr. Mr., Rifle Brigade’; Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (8372 Sjt. Mjr., Rif. Brig.), generally very fine or better (3) £250-300 Footnote James Walter ‘enlisted in the Rifle Brigade on 17 August 1886 and for many years was on the Permanent Staff of the 5th Battalion, being Sergeant-Major from 1903 until 1906, when he was promoted Quarter-Master. He finally retired on medical grounds as a Captain in 1918’ (The Rifle Brigade Chronicle, 1936 refers). Having won entitlement to the above described Queen’s South Africa Medal & clasps for service in the 5th Battalion - the Queen’s Own Royal Tower Hamlets Militia - Walter was stationed at Minister in the U.K. throughout the Great War and advanced to Q.M. and Captain in February 1916. He died in October 1951.
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