Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Wittebergen, Transvaal, clasps in this order (12287 Pte. R. P. Whittaker. 66th. Coy. Impl: Yeo:) edge bruising, good very fine £100-£140

Robert Parry Whittaker was born at Menai Bridge, Anglesea, in 1872 and attested for the Imperial Yeomanry at Doncaster on 15 February 1900. He served with the 66th (Yorkshire) Company,16th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Boer War from 13 March to 18 October 1900. He was later commissioned into the 95th (Metropolitan Mounted Rifles) Company, 24th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, and was discharged on his own request on 19 January 1901. He died in Bristol in 1934.

Sold with copied attestation papers.