Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sergeant-Farrier E. Perkins, 37th Company 10th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry

Coronation 1902, bronze; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (4807 Sgt. Far., 37th Coy. 19th Imp. Yeo.); Volunteer Force Long Service, V.R., unnamed, mounted for wear, good very fine (3) £160-200

Edward Perkins was born in Northampton in 1847. He attested for the Imperial Yeomanry at Buckingham on 5 January 1900. He served with the 37th (Buckinghamshire) Company, 10th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa, February 1900-April 1901, serving at Boshof, Heilbron and Lindley. As a Farrier-Sergeant he was discharged at Shorncliffe at his own request on 22 May 1901 - his intended place of residence being ‘St. Catherine’s Street, Northampton’. On the Coronation 1902 roll as a Quartermaster Sergeant with the Northampton Imperial Yeomanry. With damaged case of issue for the Coronation medal and with copied service notes.