Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Corporal H. Murray, Imperial Yeomanry, later Highland Light Infantry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (30001 Pte. H. Murray. 107th. Coy. Imp: Yeo:); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (205 Cpl. H. Murray. 5/H.L.I.) suspension slack to first, edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £140-£180

Hawthorn Murray was born in Arbroath, Scotland, in 1881. A saw cutter, he attested at Glasgow for the Imperial Yeomanry on 1 March 1901, serving in South Africa with the 107th (Lanarkshire) Company, 6th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, from 16 March 1901 to 22 September 1901. Discharged at his own request a month later, he likely returned home to his mother’s address at 35 Ladybridge Road, Arbroath.