A BOER WAR AND LATER GROUP OF FIVE TO THE EAST KENT REGIMENT...

A BOER WAR AND LATER GROUP OF FIVE TO THE EAST KENT REGIMENT, The BUFFS. A group of five comprising Queen's South Africa medal with ghost dates and Cape Colony, Orange Free State and Transvaal claps named to Capt L.E.L. Triscott E. Kent Regt, King's South Africa Medal with South Africa 1901 and 1902 clasps similarly named. Africa General Service Medal with Nyasaland 1915 clasp to Capt L.E.L. Triscott Depot Coy 1/K.A.R. War Medal and Victory Medal to Capt L.E.L. Triscott. Mounted court style as worn. Lionel Edward L Triscott was born on the 5th September 1853. He is recorded in South Africa with the 3rd Battalion of the Buffs, he later being an intelligence officer in St Helena. He was appointed temporary Captain from the 18th July 1902 with the East Kent Regiment before moving to the retired list and later reenlisting for the First World War and relinquishing his commission with the King's African Rifles on the 18th November 1917, following this he was granted a commission in the the N.F.F. until the 1st August 1918. As one of a small number Officers to receive the Nyasaland 1915 clasp he will have played an important part in putting down the John Chilembwe revolt in the Shire Highlands. A resident of Lymington, and a Magistrate, he lived to the age of 68.

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