Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private H. Roberts, 17th Lancers

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (4786 Pvte., 17/Lcrs.) reverse lacking suspension rivet; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (4986 Pte., 17th Lancers) mounted as worn, note different service numbers; together with a Gold Hunter Pocket Watch, ‘The Angus’, outer case bearing the monogram, ‘HR’; two crudely made Vesta Match Cases, approx. 64 x 46 x 15mm., decorated silvered brass, one decorated with a thistle, the other with badge of the 17th Lancers, both named, ‘H. Roberts’; together with a base silver case, 60 x 32 x 20mm. containing a miniature set of dominoes - the pieces in ivory, 22 x 11mm., medals very fine (6) £400-500

Horace Roberts was born in Avonmouth c.1879. He attested for the 17th Lancers on 8 December 1898. With copied roll extracts.