Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private T. White, Imperial Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (32496 Pte. T. White. 109th. Coy. Imp: Yeo:); Yorkshire Imperial Yeomanry Medal 1900-1902, 3rd Battalion, South Africa 1901-1902 (32496 Pte. T. White.); together with the related miniature award for the latter medal, suspension claw re-riveted on QSA, very fine (2) £300-£400

Thomas White was born in Doncaster in 1880. A hostler (groom or stableman), he attested at Doncaster for the Imperial Yeomanry on 6 March 1901, serving in South Africa with the 109th (Yorkshire) Company, 3rd Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, from 23 March 1901 to 23 August 1902. Discharged at Aldershot on 30 August 1902, the recipient’s Army Service Record states ‘very good with horses’ and notes his intended place of residence as 82, Wheatley Lane, Doncaster, Yorkshire.