Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901, date clasp a tailor’s copy (4653 Cpl. A. R. T. Richards, 41st. Coy. 12th Imp: Yeo:) good very fine £100-£140

Anthony Reynell Threlfull Richards was born in London in 1874 and attested for the Imperial Yeomanry at Newport, Isle of Wight, on 8 January 1900, having previously served in the Hampshire Carabineers. He served with the 41st (Hampshire) Company, 12th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Boer War from 31 January 1900 to 8 June 1901, and was discharged on 15 June 1901. He saw further service as a Major with the Hampshire Regiment and Machine Gun Corps during the Great War, and was awarded a Silver War Badge.

Sold with copied service papers; medal roll extracts; and other research.