Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, South Africa 1901 (68 Pte. W. J. Bates, 2nd. Hampshire Regt.) good very fine £100-£140

William John Bates attested for the Hampshire Regiment for the cessation of hostilities on 16 January 1900 and served with the 2nd Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War. He was discharged on 15 June 1901. He re-enlisted in the Hampshire Regiment on 11 May 1915, and served as a Lance-Sergeant with the 16th Battalion during the Great War. He was discharged due to sickness on 5 July 1916, and was awarded a Silver War Badge, no. 1718.

Sold with copied medal roll extracts.