Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (5462 Pte. W. Cousins, Somerset: Lt. Infy.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5508 Pte W. Farrow. Somerset: L.I.) scratch to obverse of KSA, slight edge digs, otherwise very fine (2) £100-£140

William Frederick Farrow, a butcher from Burnham on Sea, Somerset, was born in 1881. He attested into the 4th (Militia) Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry on 19 December 1899 and served in South Africa during the Boer War. Also entitled to a Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasp for Cape Colony, he was court martialed and jailed twice for deserting his post and wilfully injuring his equipment, before his discharge, by purchase, in May 1903. He later attested into the Hertfordshire Regiment in 1916 for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front from December 1917, before transferring into the Royal Engineers. He was finally discharged in October 1919.

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