Four: Private J. B. Thorp, Imperial Yeomanry, later Second Lieutenant, Expeditionary Force Canteens, Royal Army Service Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen, clasp block loose on riband (4265 Pte. J. B. Thorp. 35th. Coy. 11th. Imp: Yeo.); 1914-15 Star (2.Lieut. J. G. Thorp.); British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. J. G. Thorp.) minor edge bruising, nearly very fine and better (4) £200-£240

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, April 2001.

James Brewer Thorp was born in Huntingdon in 1875 and attested for the Imperial Yeomanry in London on 12 February 1900. He served with the 35th (Middlesex) Company, 11th Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War from 28 February 1900 to 18 July 1901 (also entitled to the South Africa 1901 clasp), and was discharged on 25 July 1901, after 1 year and 164 days’ service.

Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Thorp served with the Expeditionary Force Canteens, Royal Army Service Corps during the Great War in Gallipoli and Salonika from 20 May 1915. He relinquished his commission on account of ill health caused by the effects of fever in April 1917.

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