A Rare South Africa D.S.O. and Great War Bar Group of Six to Lieutenant Colonel T. E. P. Wickham, Royal Horse Artillery, Distinguished Service Order, V.R., with Second Award Bar, G.V.R.; Q.S.A., six clasps, Rel. of Kimb., Paard., Drief., Johann., Diamond Hill, Witt., K.S.A., two clasps (Lieut.), 1914 Star with bar (Capt.), British War and Victory Medals M.I.D. Oakleaf (Lt. Col), very fine and better, with the group of six related miniature awards (6)

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A Rare South Africa D.S.O. and Great War Bar Group of Six to Lieutenant Colonel T. E. P. Wickham, Royal Horse Artillery, Distinguished Service Order, V.R., with Second Award Bar, G.V.R.; Q.S.A., six clasps, Rel. of Kimb., Paard., Drief., Johann., Diamond Hill, Witt., K.S.A., two clasps (Lieut.), 1914 Star with bar (Capt.), British War and Victory Medals M.I.D. Oakleaf (Lt. Col), very fine and better, with the group of six related miniature awards (6)

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INDENTLieutenant Colonel Thomas Edmund Palmer Wickham, D.S.O. (1879-1927), entered the Royal Artillery as Second Lieutenant 1898; served in South Africa from 1900 and was present at the Relief of Kimberley, operations at Paardeberg 18-26.2.1900, actions at Poplar Grove, Dreifontein (wounded), Vet and Zand Rivers (Mentioned in Despatches, London Gazette 10.9.1901, D.S.O. London Gazette 27.9.1901); Captain 1906; Major 30.10.1914; served in the Great War in France, Belgium and Italy, (Mentioned in Despatches four times, London Gazette 22.6.1915, 4.1.1917, 18.5.1917 and 14.12.1917; wounded 11.3.1915; Bar to D.S.O. London Gazette 1.1.1918), Lieutenant Colonel 2.10.1918; Lieutenant Colonel Wickham retired 7.11.1925, and died in 1927

During the Great War only 35 officers (including four in the Royal Artillery) received a Bar to a pre-War D.S.O.

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