GEORGE TREE'S MEDALS
GEORGE TREE'S MEDALS

A detail of a photograph taken c.1932 of George Tree (1857-1942). There are seven military medals and four clasps: the top row comprises: the 1879 South Africa medal and clasp; the Egypt medal with Suakin 1884 clasp; the 1896 British South Africa Company Rhodesia medal with Mashonaland 1897 clasp; the 1884 Egypt Khedive’s Star medal with Star and Sickle clasp; beneath them are the WW1 1914-15 Star medal; the WW1 1914-18 British War medal; and the 1914-19 Victory medal - these three medals are possibly those awarded posthumously to his eldest son George Henry who died in 1917, but George Tree senior did himself serve briefly in WW1 and therefore may have been awarded all three.

GEORGE TREE'S MEDALS

A detail of a photograph taken c.1932 of George Tree (1857-1942). There are seven military medals and four clasps: the top row comprises: the 1879 South Africa medal and clasp; the Egypt medal with Suakin 1884 clasp; the 1896 British South Africa Company Rhodesia medal with Mashonaland 1897 clasp; the 1884 Egypt Khedive’s Star medal with Star and Sickle clasp; beneath them are the WW1 1914-15 Star medal; the WW1 1914-18 British War medal; and the 1914-19 Victory medal - these three medals are possibly those awarded posthumously to his eldest son George Henry who died in 1917, but George Tree senior did himself serve briefly in WW1 and therefore may have been awarded all three.