Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Surgeon Captain J. H. Wright, Imperial Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (Capt: J. H. Wright, M,D, Imp: Yeo:) engraved naming; Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, V.R. (Corpl. J. H. Wright. B.M.R. 1895.) engraved naming, mounted for wear, light contact marks, very fine (2) £300-£400

John Henderson Wright was born in Kelso, Roxburghshire, on 11 December 1854. A founding member of the 1st Roxburgh (The Border) Horse, he served during the Boer War as a Surgeon Captain attached to the 27th (Devonshire) Company, Imperial Yeomanry.