W Woolmore Collection - Groups

Lot 3631    SESSION 13 (2.30PM THURSDAY 2ND APRIL)    W Woolmore Collection - Groups

Estimate $1,250
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SOLD $1,550

TRIO: Queen's South Africa Medal 1899, (type 3 reverse), - four clasps - Natal, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902; Natal Medal 1906, - clasp - 1906; Permanent Forces of the Empire Beyond the Seas Long Service and Good Conduct Medal (GVR). 2024 Tpr: F.L.Wilkinson. Natal Police. on first medal, 2C, Sgt: F.L.Wilkinson, Natal Police. on second medal, No 1125 2nd Cl. Sgt. F.L.Wilkinson. 3rd S.A.M.R. on last medal. First two medals impressed, last medal engraved. Mounted in a storage case together with a Natal Police badge (KC), very fine.

Sergeant Wilkinson was a prominent figure in the 1906 campaign that followed the assassination of Natal Police Inspector Hunt by a lawless Zulu group in the Bambata Rebellion. He led a small party which captured Hunt's assassins and recovered his revolver and other property. Following this, Wilkinson was subjected to several unsuccessful assassination attempts.

Sergeant Wilkinson's son, 5544 Sergeant Kenneth Thomas Wilkinson serving with Umvoti Mounted Rifles in World War II, was taken POW at Tobruk on 20 June 1942. Along with another South African POW he escaped and was recaptured on 2 occasions before a final successful escape from a camp in Perugia wearing German uniforms and accompanied by three German deserters. He was awarded a MID for his escape.

With research.