Beschreibung:

A Boer War OBE and Long Service Group of 3 awarded to Sergeant-Major Edmund Edser, Royal Army Medical Corps, who continued to serve in the Great War and was mentioned in despatches, rising to the honorary rank of Major, comprising: The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Officer’s Breast Badge, 2nd type, silver-gilt, Queen’s South Africa Medal, third type reverse, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (9208 Sgt. E. Edser, R.A.M.C.), Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, EVIIR (9208 S. Mjr. E. Edser. R.A.M.C.); the first unnamed as issued, the latter pair officially impressed. A few light surface marks and hairlines, good very fine. (3) Edmund Edser was born c.1872 in West Horsley, Surrey, and served with the RAMC during the Second Boer War and WWI. Sold with copy MIC showing his entitlement to a 1914-15 Trio, and that he served as Sergeant and Quarter Master with the 15th Field Ambulance RAMC, before being promoted to Major with the 6th General Hospital, RAMC during the Great War, and a number of London Gazette mentions. Worthy of further research.