Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (31049 Pte. W. T. T. Elliott. 51st. Coy. Imp: Yeo:); together with the related miniature award, good very fine £120-£160

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2013.

William Theobald Timbrell Elliott was born in Hampstead, Middlesex, in 1878, and attested for the Imperial Yeomanry at Marlborough Street Police Court, London on 27 February 1901. He served with the 51st (Paget’s Horse) Company, 12th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Boer War from 18 March 1901 to 4 August 1902, and was discharged at Aldershot on 11 August 1902, after 1 year and 164 days’ service.

Sold with copied attestation papers, medals roll extracts, and other research.