Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Groups

Lot 3984    SESSION 19 (2.30PM FRIDAY 28TH JULY)    Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Groups

Estimate $1,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $1,800

PAIR: Imperial Service Medal (GVIR Indiae Imp); Queen's South Africa Medal 1899 (type 3 reverse), - five clasps - Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, with pin-back ribbon suspender bar. Thomas Henry Adams on first medal, 95 Pte T.H. Adams. Queensland I.B. Both medals impressed. The second medal with a small edge nick, otherwise good very fine.

Together with Queensland Mounted Infantry hat badge in gilt (51mm) (Grebert p212); a pair of dress woollen shoulder boards for the Moreton Regiment; case for ISM; storage box to fit all items.

ISM: Fourth Supplement to LG 11/10/1946, p5092, to Senior Sergeant Thomas Henry Adams, Queensland Police Force.

Confirmed 95 Thomas Henry Adams served in the Boer War with Queensland 5th Imperial Bushmen Contingent.

Thomas Henry Adams, born 14Sep1880 at Cabarlah near Toowoomba, Qld; joined 7th Moreton Regt in 1898; was one of 25 infantry-men selected to represent Queensland at the signing of the Federation in Sydney in 1900; joined the Queensland Imperial Bushmen at the start of the Boer War and served there until the end of the war in 1902; joined the Queensland Police Force in 1905 working at various country centres and was promoted to senior-sergeant while stationed at South Townsville in 1935; retired at age 60 and was given a farewell party by officers from the Valley Police Station on 17Sep1940; Served in WWII with CMF as Q381 Sergeant Thomas Henry Adams, Security Service Int Corps Qld Det from 6Nov1940 to 17Oct1945; awarded Imperial Service Medal in 1946; Thomas Henry Adams died in Sydney on 12Aug1954.

The following was reported in the Warwick Examiner and Times on Monday 17 February 1908, page 2. 'That on the Warwick Rifle Range on Saturday last, Constable Adams provided a record - ten consecutive bull's-eyes at 900 yards. That Tommy was applauded for his effort and won a 13/- prize for a 7-shot possible at this range. That Adams was a "fifth contingenter", but he did not "pink" ten Boers in as many shots as he could have last Saturday. The burglars during the coming show carnival might remember that Constable Adams has his "eye in".'

With Boer War and AMF Certificates of Discharge as well as other research.