Orders, Decorations and Medals

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, S.A. 1901 (24518 Tpr. P. B. Halladay, 69th Coy. Imp. Yeo.) top clasp with unofficial rivets, good very fine £80-100

Trooper Percy Bernard Halladay, 69th Company (Sussex) Imperial Yeomanry, a native of Poole Dorset enlisted into the Duke of Cambridges Own Imperial Yeomanry, 30 January 1901, his trade being given as ‘drapers clerk’. Halladay was twice wounded during the Boer War, the first time he was severely wounded at Basfontein, 26 May 1901. Four days later he was slightly wounded when the Boers shelled the casualty clearing station where he was being treated. He was discharged having been found medically unfit for further service, 18 February 1902. His discharge papers state ‘gunshot wound right hand, received in action 26.5.01 at Basfontein, deformity of thumb and index finger.’ (With copied service papers).