Lot Essay
M.C. London Gazette 24.9.1918 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He was the only Officer left with Brigade Transport, and volunteered to go up to the line with two limbers containing the rations of the whole Brigade. After a journey of 15 miles, much of it under shell fire, he found his units and delivered their rations under the most difficult conditions. It was entirely owing to his initiative and determination that the units were supplied with rations'.
Bar to M.C. London Gazette 1.1.1919.
Quarter-Master and Lieutenant Reginald Isaac Fairfax, M.C., who was born in 1879, served with the 1st Battalion, Welsh Regiment in the Boer War and was wounded at the Battle of Paardeberg on 18.2.1900. He was not, however, entitled to the King's South Africa Medal, but rather the addition of the clasp 'South Africa 1901' to his Queen's Medal.
Fairfax re-enlisted in his old Regiment at Cardiff in August 1914, aged 34 years, was quickly advanced to Quarter-Master Sergeant and joined the 9th Battalion out in France in July 1915. Thus employed until July 1917, he returned to the U.K. for a Commission and was posted as a Quarter-Master & Lieutenant to the 10th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment back out in France - his first M.C. was won for the above described deeds in the Battle of the Aisne in May 1918, a Bar being gazetted in January 1919 for subsequent acts of bravery. No verification, however, has been found for a 'Mention'.
Fairfax was demobilised in November 1920, his intended place of residence being "Paardeberg" in Cwm Bran, Monmouthshire. Afterwards settling down to a career as a Postman in Newport, he was awarded the Imperial Service Medal in August 1941 (London Gazette refers), in addition to pursuing another stint of service in uniform in the local Home Guard between 1941-44.
Bar to M.C. London Gazette 1.1.1919.
Quarter-Master and Lieutenant Reginald Isaac Fairfax, M.C., who was born in 1879, served with the 1st Battalion, Welsh Regiment in the Boer War and was wounded at the Battle of Paardeberg on 18.2.1900. He was not, however, entitled to the King's South Africa Medal, but rather the addition of the clasp 'South Africa 1901' to his Queen's Medal.
Fairfax re-enlisted in his old Regiment at Cardiff in August 1914, aged 34 years, was quickly advanced to Quarter-Master Sergeant and joined the 9th Battalion out in France in July 1915. Thus employed until July 1917, he returned to the U.K. for a Commission and was posted as a Quarter-Master & Lieutenant to the 10th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment back out in France - his first M.C. was won for the above described deeds in the Battle of the Aisne in May 1918, a Bar being gazetted in January 1919 for subsequent acts of bravery. No verification, however, has been found for a 'Mention'.
Fairfax was demobilised in November 1920, his intended place of residence being "Paardeberg" in Cwm Bran, Monmouthshire. Afterwards settling down to a career as a Postman in Newport, he was awarded the Imperial Service Medal in August 1941 (London Gazette refers), in addition to pursuing another stint of service in uniform in the local Home Guard between 1941-44.