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Four: Private G. W. Toke, Cape Police Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-97, 1...
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Four: Private G. W. Toke, Cape Police
Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-97, 1 clasp, Bechuanaland (Pte. G. W. Toke. C. Pol.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Kimberley (274 Pte. G. W. Toke. Cape Police); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (274 Pte. G. W. Toke. C.P. Dist. 2.); Mayor of Kimberley’s Star 1899-1900, reverse hallmark with date letter ‘a’, privately engraved ‘G. W. Toke Cape Police D.2’, mounted for display, contact marks, otherwise very fine (4) £300-£400
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Gilbert Willoughby Toke was born on 25 February 1871, at Lucknow, West Bengal. Educated in England, he was residing in South Africa when he enlisted into the Cape Police in January 1897, seeing service in the Bechuanaland campaign and in the Second Boer War, when he was present at the Defence of Kimberley. He emigrated to Western Australia in 1905 where he seems to have become a farmer. A prominent member of the South African and Imperial Veterans Association, he was pictured several times in local newspapers in the 1950s, wearing his medals with other veterans. He died in Perth in 1957.
Sold with medal roll confirmation together with various newspaper articles and photographs.
Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-97, 1 clasp, Bechuanaland (Pte. G. W. Toke. C. Pol.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Kimberley (274 Pte. G. W. Toke. Cape Police); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (274 Pte. G. W. Toke. C.P. Dist. 2.); Mayor of Kimberley’s Star 1899-1900, reverse hallmark with date letter ‘a’, privately engraved ‘G. W. Toke Cape Police D.2’, mounted for display, contact marks, otherwise very fine (4) £300-£400
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Gilbert Willoughby Toke was born on 25 February 1871, at Lucknow, West Bengal. Educated in England, he was residing in South Africa when he enlisted into the Cape Police in January 1897, seeing service in the Bechuanaland campaign and in the Second Boer War, when he was present at the Defence of Kimberley. He emigrated to Western Australia in 1905 where he seems to have become a farmer. A prominent member of the South African and Imperial Veterans Association, he was pictured several times in local newspapers in the 1950s, wearing his medals with other veterans. He died in Perth in 1957.
Sold with medal roll confirmation together with various newspaper articles and photographs.
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Four: Private G. W. Toke, Cape Police
Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-97, 1 clasp, Bechuanaland (Pte. G. W. Toke. C. Pol.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Kimberley (274 Pte. G. W. Toke. Cape Police); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (274 Pte. G. W. Toke. C.P. Dist. 2.); Mayor of Kimberley’s Star 1899-1900, reverse hallmark with date letter ‘a’, privately engraved ‘G. W. Toke Cape Police D.2’, mounted for display, contact marks, otherwise very fine (4) £300-£400
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Gilbert Willoughby Toke was born on 25 February 1871, at Lucknow, West Bengal. Educated in England, he was residing in South Africa when he enlisted into the Cape Police in January 1897, seeing service in the Bechuanaland campaign and in the Second Boer War, when he was present at the Defence of Kimberley. He emigrated to Western Australia in 1905 where he seems to have become a farmer. A prominent member of the South African and Imperial Veterans Association, he was pictured several times in local newspapers in the 1950s, wearing his medals with other veterans. He died in Perth in 1957.
Sold with medal roll confirmation together with various newspaper articles and photographs.
Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-97, 1 clasp, Bechuanaland (Pte. G. W. Toke. C. Pol.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Kimberley (274 Pte. G. W. Toke. Cape Police); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (274 Pte. G. W. Toke. C.P. Dist. 2.); Mayor of Kimberley’s Star 1899-1900, reverse hallmark with date letter ‘a’, privately engraved ‘G. W. Toke Cape Police D.2’, mounted for display, contact marks, otherwise very fine (4) £300-£400
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Gilbert Willoughby Toke was born on 25 February 1871, at Lucknow, West Bengal. Educated in England, he was residing in South Africa when he enlisted into the Cape Police in January 1897, seeing service in the Bechuanaland campaign and in the Second Boer War, when he was present at the Defence of Kimberley. He emigrated to Western Australia in 1905 where he seems to have become a farmer. A prominent member of the South African and Imperial Veterans Association, he was pictured several times in local newspapers in the 1950s, wearing his medals with other veterans. He died in Perth in 1957.
Sold with medal roll confirmation together with various newspaper articles and photographs.
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