Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (4913 Tpr: B. [sic] Whiting, 37th Coy 10th Impl: Yeo:) edge nick, very fine £60-£80

Joseph Bennett Whiting, a farmer from Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, was born in 1877. He attested, at Buckingham, on 5 January 1900, for the Imperial Yeomanry for service during the Second Boer War. He served in South Africa with the 37th (Buckinghamshire) Company, Imperial Yeomanry from 10 February 1900 to 24 May 1901 and was discharged on 22 June 1901. He is entitled to four clasps to his Queen’s South Africa Medal: Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal and South Africa 1901.