Pair: Private T. Hides, Imperial Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (24166 Pte. T. Hides. 9th. Coy. Imp: Yeo:); Yorkshire Imperial Yeomanry Medal 1900-1902, 3rd Battalion, South Africa 1901-1902 (24166 Pte. T. Hides.) contact marks and polishing, about nearly very fine (2) £300-£400

Thomas Hides was born in the Parish of Brightside, Sheffield, in 1879. A green grocer, he attested at Doncaster for the Imperial Yeomanry on 6 February 1901, serving in South Africa with the 9th (Yorkshire Hussars) Company, 3rd Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, from 16 March 1901 to 28 April 1902. Severely wounded at Klipfontein 22 January 1902, the recipient’s Army Service Record notes: ‘Gunshot wound, right leg.’ He was discharged medically unfit at Shorncliffe on 30 June 1902, the injury resulting in a limp.