Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Imperial Yeomanry L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (132 Cpl. A. W. Reid, W. Kent I.Y.), good very fine £350-400

Reid was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in November 1905, one of 28 such awards to the West Kent (Queen’s Own) Yeomanry.

Not among the small contingent of men selected for active service in the Boer War with the 36th (West Kent) Company, Imperial Yeomanry, he would, however, have witnessed the changes made to such units as a result of the conflict, including the adoption of the Lee-Enfield Rifle versus the carbine, and khaki for service dress.

During a training exercise at Cobham Park in 1903, Major-General Baden-Powell ‘gave an instructive lecture to the N.C.Os’, while in July 1905, the year in which Reid received his Medal, a contingent of the West Kent Yeomanry acted as escort to King Edward VII during his visit to Chatham; see Some Historical Records of the West Kent (Q.O.) Yeomanry 1794-1909, by Lieutenant-Colonel J. F. Edmeades, M.V.O., for further details.