Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private G. Bateman, King’s Royal Rifle Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Talana, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (9673 Pte. G. Bateman. K.R.R.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (9673 Pte. G. Bateman K.R.R.C.) suspensions loose, worn, fine (2) £80-120

George Bateman was born in Hull, Yorkshire, and attested for the King’s Royal Rifle Corps at Newcastle in October 1896. He served with the 1st Battalion during the Second Boer War, and was discharged ‘Medically Unfit’ 16 September 1902.