Description
St John’s Medal for South Africa 1899-1902, 1738 Private George E. Mott, Metropolitan Corps, a scarce medal for volunteers from St Johns Ambulance Brigade.
Officially engraved: “1738 Pte G.E. Mott. Met Corps.”
Private/Orderly G. E. Mott, was from London’s “Metropolitan Corps” of the St John’s Ambulance Brigade, who served in South Africa during the Boer War, earning this scarce Bronze Medal.
He is additionally entitled to the Silver Queen’s South Africa Medal, with 3 bars for Cape Colony, Orange Free State and South Africa 1901.
The roll recalls he was stationed at 3 General Hospital in South Africa.
The roll also notes that at the end of his service he was sent home on “21st June 1901”.
There was only Londoner by this name at the time:
George Edwin Mott, was born, in Stepney, London on 26th August 1875.
He spent most of his life in London, around the time of the Boer War, he was present on the 1901 Census, living with his widowed father Thomas Mott in Mile End Old Town, working as a labourer.
By 1911, he still lived in Mile End Old Town, having married Annie Frances Mott (Janett) and working as a Fruit Porter.
In 1921, he was still there in 1921, where he worked as a Labourer for “Nathan and Co Glaxo Milk”, also known as Glaxo (now GlaxoSmithKline).
He died in his home town of Stepney, London, on 19th July 1943.
