Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Private W. H. Young, Grenadier Guards, batman to Lord Edward Cecil throughout the siege of Mafeking

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (5385 Pte. W. F. Young, 1/Gren. Gds.) note second initial; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Orange Free State, Defence of Mafeking, Transvaal (5385 Pte. W. H. Young, Grenadier Gds:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5385 Pte. W. H. Young, Gren: Gds:); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum (Pte. W. Young. Gren. Gds.) regimentally impressed naming, good very fine or better (4)
£3000-3500

Ex Spink, Anglo-Boer War Anniversary Sale, October 1999.

Private W. H. Young was batman to Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Edward Cecil throughout the siege of Mafeking. After Cecil left South Africa Young became orderly to Major Hon. J. F. Gathorne Hardy, Grenadier Guards, attached to Lovat’s Scouts.