Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private E. Tatham, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between clasps (5036 Pte. E. Tatham. Shrops: L.I.); 1914-15 Star (7089 Pte. E. Tatham. Shrops: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (SR-7089 Pte. E. Tatham. Shrops. L.I.), with a named card box of issue; together with the recipient’s Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘73737’, good very fine (5) £180-£220

Edmund Tatham attested for the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, and served with the 2nd Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War. Following the outbreak of the Great War he re-enlisted in his old regiment on 26 August 1914, and served with the 5th Battalion on the Western Front from 22 May 1915. He was discharged on account of wounds on 12 June 1916, and was awarded a Silver War Badge.

Sold with copied Medal Index Card and medal roll extracts.