Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (Lieut. W. Hatherley-Jones, 1st Bn. Rl. Welsh Fus.) naming impressed in a later style, contact marks, nearly very fine £180-£220

Dix Noonan Webb, September 2012.

William Hatherley-Jones was born in Chester in 1868, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 2nd Volunteer Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers on 5 January 1898. He was advanced to Lieutenant in December 1899, and volunteered to serve with the 1st Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War in July 1900. He resigned his commission on 18 September 1901, returning to his civilian life as a law clerk.

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