Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private H. Eyre, Imperial Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets and glue between state and date clasps (27953 Pte. H. Eyre. 9th. Coy. Imp: Yeo:); Yorkshire Imperial Yeomanry Medal 1900-1902, 3rd Battalion, South Africa 1901-1902 (27953 Pte. H. Eyre.) surname corrected, edge bruise to second, good very fine (2) £300-£400

Harold Eyre was born in the Parish of St. Coates, Hull, in 1881. A clerk, he attested at Doncaster for the Imperial Yeomanry on 18 February 1901, serving in South Africa with the 9th (Yorkshire Hussars) Company, 3rd Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, from 14 March 1901 to 28 August 1902. He was later discharged at Aldershot on 30 August 1902.