BOER WAR PAIR TO SIR EDMUND BEECROFT FRANCIS HEATHCOTE LACON- BARONET 12TH LANCERS

Queens South Africa Medal, clasps: CAPE COLONY/ORANGE FREE STATE
Named to: LIEUT SIR E.B. LACON BART.12TH RL LANCERS( naming impressed)
King's South Africa Medal, clasps: SOUTH AFRICA 1901/SOUTH AFRICA 1902 (naming engraved)
Named to: LT.SIR E.B.F.H. LACON BT 12/LCRS
Medals very fine, contact wear, edge bruise on Q.S.A. large e/bruise on K.S.A.
Lt. 4th (Militia) Btn., Norfolk Regt 1898-9
Served in the South Africa War 1901-2 with the 12th Lancers operations in the Transvaal,, April to July 1901, and in Cape Colony July 1901 to 31st May 1902 (Queen's Medal with three clasps, King's medal with two clasps.
He was admitted to the Russian/Dutch hospital suffering from enteric fever, along with three other officers on 12th May, two of whom subsequently died.
Hart's Army List 1909-Captain, Westmoreland and Cumberland Yeomanry

Sir Edmund Beecroft Francis Heathcote Lacon 5th
Baronet of Ormesby, Norfolk. created 1818. Eldest Son of Thomas Beecroft Usher Lacon, Esq., who died 1899,by Florence Dunbar, daughter of of the late R.G. Banks, Esq; born 1878, succeeded his uncle Sir Thomas Broughton Knowles Lacon, 4th Baronet, in 1899
Lacon got into severe financial trouble after unwise investments, securing his interests against the Ormesby Estate, and guarantees given to brother officers whilst in the Army.
He went to British Columbia in 1909 and was tragically killed in a car accident, when his car went over a bank on 28th September 1911, just a few months after marrying his wife.
Sold with old copied research, ie War Services, Walfords County Families, Burke's Peerage, Hart's Army Lists, "Kelly's" The12th Lancers Journal, where there is a blurred photo of Lacon and Times Obitiary

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