Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Transvaal (5741 Pte. G. Challis, York: Regt.) edge nicks and contact marks, nearly very fine £160-£200

George Challis was born in Walworth, Surrey, on 28 March 1880. A carman, he initially enlisted for the 4th (Militia) Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, before transferring in London to the Yorkshire Regiment in March 1898. Sent overseas to Gibraltar and South Africa from 24 November 1899 to 11 September 1902, Challis was severely wounded in action at Paardeberg on 18 February 1900. Remaining in South Africa for medical care, he returned home with the regiment and later qualified for Mounted Infantry on 30 November 1903. Discharged from the Army Reserve 14 March 1910, Challis later took employment as a driller for a steel manufacturer in Sheffield.