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ROYAL VICTORIAN ORDER GROUP OF 9 MEDALS TO SIR MAJOR E.B. FREDERICK, R. FUS. & LADY FREDERICK'S MEDAL

*** SOLD *** Royal Victorian Order Commander's neck badge with reverse numbered C1066; Queen's South Africa Medal with Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith and Transvaal clasps to Lieut. E.B. Frederick, 2/Rl. Fus.; King's South Africa Medal with South Africa 1901 & 1902 clasps to Lt. E.B. Frederick, Rl. Fusrs.; 1914-15 Star to Capt. E.B. Frederick, R. Fus.; WWI War Medal to Major E.B. Frederick; WWI Victory Medal to Major E.B. Frederick; WWII Defence Medal; 1935 Jubilee Medal; 1937 Coronation Medal. Wife's medal: WWII Defence Medal to Lady E.K.C. Frederick.
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Description

Edward Boscawen Frederick, 9th Baronet C.V.O. was born in Loppington Hall, Shropshire on 29 June 1880, the second son of Sir Charles Frederick, 7th Baronet, and grandson of General Edward Frederick, educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers on 11 Feb 1899, Frederick served with the 2nd Battalion in South Africa, present at Colenso, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith and Transvaal, promoted to Lieutenant on 16 Mar 1900.

Returning to England, Frederick played First-Class cricket for Hampshire from 1903 to 1907. A right-handed batsman and slow right-armed bowler, Frederick took 9 wickets at an average of 36.77 over 5 matches, with a best of 3-41., and scored 36 runs. In 1907, Frederick represented the Europeans (India), making his debut against the Parsees in the final of the Bombay tournament. This was Frederick's final First-Class match, during which he claimed a single wicket.

In 1913, Frederick married Edith Katherine Cortlandt, daughter of Colonel William Hutchinson Mulloy. They had two sons, the youngest Lieutenant John Christopher Frederick, was Killed In Action during WWII in Tunisia in 1943.

During WWI, Frederick entered France on 7 Mar 1915 and was severely wounded on 3 May 1915. After the war, Frederick was appointed an Exon of the King's Body Guard of Yeoman of the Guard in 1925.