Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Captain E. A. Johnston, 11th Mounted Rifles, late Imperial Yeomanry and South African Constabulary

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Orange Free State, clasps mounted in this order with unofficial rivets between second and third clasps (15155 Far-Sgt. E. A. Johnstone [sic]. 74th. Coy. Imp: Yeo:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (1321 Far:-Serjt: E. A. Johnston. S.A.C.); 1914-15 Star (Lt. E. A. Johnston S.A.S.C. - T.&P.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Lt. E. A. Johnston.); Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal, G.V.R. (Lt. E. A. Johnston. 4th. Dismtd. B.T. S.A.S.C.) the Boer War awards nearly very fine, the latter awards better (6) £240-£280

Ernest Alexander Johnston was born on 14 December 1881, and served as a Farrier Sergeant with the 74th (Dublin) Company, 8th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Boer War. He transferred to the South African Constabulary on 22 April 1901, before joining the Imperial Light Horse as a Farrier Quartermaster Sergeant on 10 July 1903. He was commissioned Lieutenant in the 11th Mounted Rifles on 24 October 1914, and served with them during the early stages of the Great War, before transferring to the 4th Dismounted Brigade Train, South African Service Corps. Following the cessation of hostilities he was placed on the Reserve of Officers, Transports and Remounts Branch, with the rank of Captain on 30 June 1926.

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