Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Hazara 1888 (1231 Pte. S. Williams 1st. Bn. Suff. R.) nearly extremely fine £120-£160

Samuel Williams was born in Birmingham in 1861 and attested for the Suffolk Regiment at Bury St. Edmunds on 16 February 1885. Posted to the 2nd Battalion, he served with them at home, before transferring to the 1st Battalion for service in India on 7 January 1887, and took part in the Hazara Campaign of 1888. He transferred to the Army Reserve on 27 March 1892, and was discharged on 15 February 1897, after 12 years’ service. He re-enlisted on 18 March of that year for a further 4 years’ service, and served in South Africa during the Boer War from 18 May 1900 to 11 February 1902 (entitled to a Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasps for Cape Colony, Orange Free State, and Transvaal; and a King’s South Africa Medal with both date clasps). He was finally discharged at Bury St. Edmunds on 17 March 1902, after a further 5 years’ service.

Sold with copied record of service and medal roll extracts.