Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivet between state and date clasp as issued (12753 Tpr: L. Williams, 71st. Coy. 18th. Impl: Yeo:) edge bruise, very fine £300-£400

L. Williams served with the 71st (Sharpshooters) Company, 18th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Boer War.

Sold with a Standard Bank of South Africa Sight Bill (Bill of Exchange) named to L. Williams for the sum of £5, this in relic condition; a letter to the recipient from the Mayor of Liskeard inviting him to a Reception Dinner for the men who have been to the front in South Africa, to be held at Liskeard Guildhall on 28 October 1902, in envelope addressed to ‘Trooper L. Williams, 60 Trinity Square, London SE’; and copied medal roll extracts.