Queens South Africa Medal clasps Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen with clear ghost dates (8376 PTE. E.C. MOFFETT. SCOTS GDS); Kings South Africa Medal clasps South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (8376 PTE. E.C. MOFFATT. SCOTS GUARDS) - note the difference in the spelling of Moffett/Moffatt, a common occurrence with this surname.
Edward Chambers Moffett was born in Plymouth in 1865. A Clerk and Assistant School Master, he enlisted with the Scots Guards in 1889 and after 10 years of home service, was posted to the Anglo Boer War in South Africa with effect from 15 March 1900. He would have been engaged in the operations around the Brandwater Basin in the Orange Free State in June 1900 where the Boer General, Prinsloo, was surrounded and obliged to surrender with over 4000 men.
In 1891 he ran into a spot of bother with the law, coming up in Reading on a charge of Simple Larceny. Fortunately he was acquitted of the charge although a contemporary newspaper reported, under the heading "An Expensive Absence" that, "Notwithstanding that the Grand Jury threw out the bill against Edward Chambers Moffatt, clerk of Old Windsor, charged with theft, his recognisances were entreated, prisoner having gone abroad in the meantime."
He was discharged, Medically Unfit, in 1902
Medals are in good condition unless indicated otherwise. Sold with some research.
