Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivets between third and fourth clasps (4589 Tpr: E. C. Charrington. 41st. Coy. 12th Imp: Yeo:) light contact marks, therefore nearly very fine, the reverse better £120-£160

Ernest Charles Charrington was born in Kingston Vale, Surrey, in 1877 and attested for the Imperial Yeomanry at Winchester on 9 January 1900, whilst currently serving with the Hampshire Carabiniers. He served with the 41st (Hampshire) Company, 12th Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War from 31 January 1900 to 24 May 1901, and was discharged on 23 June 1901, after 1 year and 166 days’ service. A man of this name served as a Lieutenant with the Army Service Corps during the Great War.

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