Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Pte. W. H. Prentice. Craddock T.G.) nearly extremely fine £80-£100

W. H. Prentice was born in 1862 and emigrated to South Africa in January 1890. Employed as a Linesman with the Engineer Department, Post Telegraph, Cape Colony, he served with the Craddock Town Guard and restored communications at Fish River, Breman, and other points on several occasions following Boer raids in Craddock and adjacent districts.

Sold with copied medal roll extract and other research.