Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Trooper W. J. Colson, Imperial Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (33899 Tpr W. J. Colson. 89th Coy Imp: Yeo:) unofficial rivets between 1st and 2nd clasps; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Sergt. William J. Colson); with Montgomeryshire Tribute Medal 1901, obverse, the arms of Montgomeryshire, ‘Montgomeryshire Imperial Yeomanry’, reverse, a mounted trooper with a soldier knelt firing rifle at his side, ‘South African Campaign 1901, 38mm., bronze, unnamed, with claw and eyelet suspension, generally very fine (3) £160-£200

William J. Colson served with the 89th (Montgomeryshire) Company, 9th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry during the Second Boer War.