Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Trooper W. H. Frampton, Imperial Yeomanry, later Royal Field Artillery

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (34540 Tpr: W. H. Frampton. 33rd Coy. Imp: Yeo:); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, E.VII.R. (150 Bmbr. W. Frampton. 3/Wessex B. R.F.A.) minor edge bruising, otherwise very fine (2) £220-£260

William Horatio Frampton was born at Blandford, Dorset, and attested for the Imperial Yeomanry in March 1901, declaring prior service with the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. Posted initially to the 1st Provisional Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, he served with the 33rd (Royal East Kent) Company, 11th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Boer War from 29 March 1901 to 13 May 1902, and was discharged at Shorncliffe, medically unfit, on 14 June 1902.