Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (26710 Cpl. J. McLaren. 107th Coy Imp: Yeo:) edge bruises, first part of rank obliterated [presumably read 2 Cpl], very fine £70-£90

James McLaren, a plasterer from Glasgow, was born in December 1879. He attested into the Lanarkshire Yeomanry on 12 February 1901, and served in South Africa during the Boer War from 16 March 1901 until 4 August 1902. He was discharged in Aldershot, with very good conduct on 11 August 1902.

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