Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (4613 Tpr. D. E. Horwood, Roberts Horse) one or two edge bruises, very fine £140-180

With a copy of his attestation paper that shows that Trooper Horwood served in the Irish Squadron of Roberts Horse, which was formed when the regiment was raised in February 1900, ‘chiefly from men who have found their way to South Africa from various parts of the world’ (Lord Roberts’ despatch of 6 February 1900 refers). Horwood attested in March 1900 and, as a Corporal, was discharged medically unfit in August 1900.