Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Orange Free State (12091 Tpr. W. A. Morgan, 65th Coy. 17th Impl. Yeo.) edge bruising, otherwise good very fine £250-300

William Richard Morgan was born in Wellington, Shropshire. A Groom by occupation, he attested for the Imperial Yeomanry at Leicester on 26 February 1900, aged 23 years, 3 months. Served in the 65th (Leicestershire) Company, 17th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa, April 1900-June 1901. The unit, under Captain Peake, was sent to put down the rebellion of Mapondera in Rhodesia and thus served further north than any other troops in the Boer War. Morgan was discharged, having completed his period of service, at Leicester on 1 July 1901. With copied research.