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VICTORIAN D.S.O. GROUP OF 5 MEDALS TO CAPT. C.L.E. EUSTACE, K.R.R.C. (SEVERELY WOUNDED MASHONALAND 1896)

Distinguished Service Order VR; India General Service Medal with Lushai 1889-92 and N.E. Frontier 1891 clasps to Lieut. C.L.E. Eustace, 4th Bn., K.R. Rif. C.; British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97 to Lieut. C.L.E. Eustace, K.R. Rif. C.; Queen's South Africa Medal with Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal and Laing's Nek clasp to Capt. C.L.E. Eustace, D.S.O., K.R.R.C.; King's South Africa Medal with South Africa 1901 & 1902 clasps to Capt. C.L.E. Eustace, D.S.O., K.R.R.C.
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D.S.O. Gazetted 29 Nov 1900: 'In connection with the Campaign in South Africa 1899-1900'.


M.I.D.s Gazetted 9 Nov 1900: 'For safeguarding Lines of Communication Ladysmith-Heidelburg', and 8 Feb 1901: ‘General Buller's recommendation, Captain C.L.E. Eustace, 2nd Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps, Composite Regiment of Mounted Infantry under Major H. de la P. Gough, 16th Lancers.’


Charles Legge Eustace was born on 26 July 1867, the son of Colonel R.J.E. Eustace, 60th Rifles and Lady Katherine Eustace, daughter of the 4th Earl of Dartmouth.

Educated at Eton, Eustace joined the 3rd and 4th Battalions, South Staffordshire Regiment as a Gentlemen as Lieutenant on 20 Dec 1884, joining the King's Royal Rifle Corps in 1889 and serving in the Manipur Expedition 1891 and Chin-Lushai Expedition 1891-2.


Eustace was then posted to Rhodesia during the Second Matabele War. He is recorded in the London Gazette 5 Apr 1898 as being 'Wounded in Action - very severe' during the Mashonaland Rising at the attack on 'Mashingombe's Kraal on 9 Oct 1896' .


Made Captain on 13 July 1897, Eustace then served with the Mounted Infantry during the Boer War, was engaged at the Willow Grange engagement in 1899 and mentioned in General Buller's despatch 8 Feb 1901 under the command of Major H. de la P. Gough's Composite Regiment of Mounted Infantry and granted the local rank of Major whilst in command of the 4th Division Mounted Infantry on 15 Nov 1900 receiving his D.S.O. 'in connection with the Campaign in South Africa 1899-1900, dated 29 Nov 1900', made Adjutant of the 8th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps on 27 June 1902.


Eustace changed his surname to Robertson-Eustace and died in Cairo, Egypt on 4 Oct 1908.