Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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 (25435 Tpr: W. Lea. 57th. Coy. Imp: Yeo:) edge bruising, polished and worn, nearly very fine £160-£200

M.M. London Gazette 20 August 1919.

Walter Lea was born in Knutsford, Cheshire, on 14 June 1880 and was serving with the 5th Lancashire Volunteer Artillery when he volunteered for the Imperial Yeomanry on 11 February 1901. He served with the 57th (Buckinghamshire) Company, 15th Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War from 25 March 1901 to 2 August 1902, and was discharged at Aldershot on 9 August 1902.
A Police Officer with the Lancashire Police in civilian life, Lea served with the Military Mounted Police during the Great War on the Western Front from 19 July 1915, and for his service he was awarded the Military Medal. He was discharged on 2 April 1919, and resumed his police career in Lancashire.

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