Boer War Cape Colony, Transvaal and Wittebergen and Great War Western Front group awarded to Trooper C.L. Hackett, 41st Company, 12th Company, Imperial Yeomanry, later Lieutenant, Remount Service and Captain, General List who saw service in South Africa during the Boer War taking part in the operations in Cape Colony and Transvaal as well as in the action at Wittebergen between 1st and 29th July 1900. He would later be commissioned into the Remount Department, and would later see service as a Captain on the General List on the Western Front from 25th October 1915.
Group of 5: Queen’s South Africa Medal 1899-1902, 3 Clasps: Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen; (4615 TRPR. C.L. HACKETT. 41ST COY. 12TH IMP:YEO.) King’s South Africa Medal 1901-1902, 2 Clasps: South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902; (LT. C.L. HACKETT. I.Y.) 1914-1915 Star; naming somewhat crudely re-impressed (CAPT. C.L. HACKET) British War Medal and Victory Medal; (CAPT C.L. HACKET.) Mounted for wear.
Condition: Star somewhat crudely re-impressed, overall some light contact wear, Good Very Fine
Along with a Second World War Army Council Medal Forwarding Slip, showing entitlement to the 1939-1945 Star; Africa Star; Defence Medal and War Medal. Possibly the recipient’s son
Dominion of Canada - Canadian Governments Annuities certificate in the name of Charles Lisle Hacket of Montreal, Quebec in the sum of 1,000 dollars annually paid quarterly as a life insurance policy.
Charles Lisle Hacket was born in Rugby, Warwickshire in 1873, a descendant of the Stuart monarchs of Scotland, and would attest for the Imperial Yeomanry at Newport, Isle of Wight on 8th January 1900 and subsequently seeing service in South Africa during the Boer War with the 41st Company, 12th Imperial Yeomanry. While in South Africa he would take part in the operations in Cape Colony and Transvaal as well as in the action at Wittebergen from 1st to 29th July 1900. He would be commissioned Lieutenant on 8th May 1901, subsequently serving with the Remount Department.
Hacket would later serve during the Great War, being present as a Captain on the General List on the Western Front from 25th October 1915, being promoted to Major on relinquishing his commission.
In civilian life Hacket had business interests in both Canada and East Africa and papers from the War Office relating to pension entitlement for his second wife, suggest that he was suspected of being guilty of bigamy with a wife on both continents. However, the War Office felt it would not be reasonable to pursue this on a criminal basis for financial reasons. He is noted as having worked for the General Railway Signal Company.
He died in Guernsey on 18th January 1949.
