Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private W. J. Willis, Grenadier Guards

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (3113 Pte., Gren. Gds.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (3113 Pte., Grenadier Guards) mounted as worn, contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £140-180

Walter John Willis was born in Caversham, Reading, Berkshire. A Labourer by occupation, he attested for the Grenadier Guards at London on 4 August 1891. With the regiment he served in the Second Boer War. He was discharged as being medically unfit at London on 28 September 1905. With copied service papers and roll extracts.