VINTAGE DIED WOUNDS WW1 BRITISH BOER WAR SERVICE MEDAL GROUP JOHN KNOX QUEEN’S/KING’S SOUTH AFRICA

Offered is a Boer war pair of service medals, comprising Queen's & King's South Africa Medals, as awarded to Gunner John William Knox, who served with the Royal Garrisson Artillery during the Boer War and died of wounds in France on the 30th may 1916 during the First World War. Queen's South Africa Medal with campaign bars, TRANSVAAL, ORANGE FREE STATE & CAPE COLONY, impressed to: 73537 GNR: J. W. KNOX, 15TH COY S.D., R.G.A.
King's South Africa Medal with date bars SOUTH AFRICA 1901. SOUTH AFRICA 1902, impressed to: 73537 GNR: J. W. KNOX. R.G.A.
John William D Knox was born in Middlesborough, Yorkshire in 1874. He is shown to have served in South Africa during the Boer War with the 15th (Siege Train) Company, Southern Division, Royal Garrison Artillery. He is shown as discharged 2nd May 1902. The 1911 Census shows him living at 25 Dutton Cottages, Dutton Lane, Eastleigh, Hampshire, with his occupation as a Spring Buckler and age as 37. He was married to Ida Knox, with whom they had 2 children, Lillian & Herbert. In 1914 he enlisted in Southampton, being less two miles from where he lived. He entered combat with the 44th brigade, Royal Field Artillery in August 1914 as a Driver with regimental number 11914. He is shown to have been serving in France as a Shoeing Smith, with 'C' Battery, 77th Brigade, R.F.A. when he died of wounds on the 30th May 1916. He is buried at Bethune Town Cemetery, France.