Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (4681 Q.M. Sgt. E. W. Andrews. 50th. Coy. 17th. Impl: Yeo:) good very fine £300-£400

Ernest Wilfred Andrews was born in Winchester in 1878 and attested there for the Imperial Yeomanry on 23 January 1900. He served with the 50th (Hampshire) Company, 17th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Boer War from 7 April 1900 to 9 June 1901, and was promoted Corporal on 7 September 1900, and Quartermaster Sergeant on 7 March 1901. He was discharged on demobilisation on 15 June 1901, after 1 year and 144 days’ service.

Sold with copied record of service and medal roll extracts.