Orders, Decorations and Medals

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (1440 Dmr. A. Lindus, Welsh Regt.), edge bruising and contact marks, thus fine £180-220

Alexander Lindus, who was born in Woolwich, Kent, enlisted in the Welch Regiment as a Musician, aged 14 years, in January 1886. Having then served on garrison duty in Egypt and Malta, he was appointed a Drummer in the 1st Battalion in February 1895, and went on to witness active service in South Africa from November 1899 until the end of hostilities, gaining the above described Medal & clasps, in addition to the King’s Medal & clasps (his Military History Sheet refers). Returning home in August 1904, he was discharged as a Lance-Sergeant on completion of his second period of engagement in February 1907, when his papers noted that he sported a tattooed drummer on his right forearm. Lindus died at Banstead, Surrey in June 1939.