Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (5303 Pte. A. Habgood, 26th. Coy. 7th. Impl: Yeo:) nearly extremely fine £80-£100

Albert Habgood was born in Christchurch, Hampshire, in 1877. A yeoman by profession, he attested for the Imperial Yeomanry at Weymouth on 8 January 1900, and served with the 26th (Dorsetshire) Copany, 7th Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War from 2 March 1900 to 4 January 1901. His Service Record notes ‘Edens Fontein, Pretoria, Diamond Hill’, and adds that Habgood was discharged at his own request at Shorncliffe on 27 February 1901. Interestingly, his papers note his special qualifications for employment in civil life as farmer, the same occupation as many of the Boer’s against which he fought.

Sold with copied service papers.