Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family group:

Pair: Private Jos Hyde, 9th Company (Yorkshire Hussars) Imperial Yeomanry
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (26781 Pte. J. Hyde. 9th Coy. Imp: Yeo:) fitted with silver ribbon brooch; Doncaster Tribute Medal 1900-01, obverse: enamelled arms of the city, ‘South. African. War. 1900-01’, reverse inscribed, ‘To Jos Hyde from the Corporation of Doncaster’, 9 carat gold and enamel, hallmarks for Birmingham 1902, 17.10g., with integral ring suspension, chips to enamel, otherwise very fine and rare

Three: Private Walter Hyde, Royal Irish Regiment
1914-15 Star (2824 Pte. W. Hyde. R. Ir: Regt:); British War and Victory Medals (2824 Pte. W. Hyde. R. Ir. Regt.) generally very fine (5) £1,000-£1,200

Ref: Hibbard A11, type 1.

Jos Hyde was born at Doncaster, Yorkshire, and attested for the Yorkshire Imperial Yeomanry on 13 February 1901, aged 21, a moulder by trade. He served with the 9th Company (Yorkshire Hussar) in South Africa from 13 March 1901 to 3 March 1902, and was discharged medically unfit on 16 April 1902. Sold with copied discharge papers and other research.

Walter Hyde served with the 5th Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment, in the Balkan theatre from 22 July 1915. He was discharged to Class “Z” Reserve on 8 April 1919.