Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Belfast, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivets between fourth and fifth clasps (5010 Pte. J. Caple. 6/Drgns.) engraved naming, minor edge nick, nearly extremely fine £100-£140

James Caple, a butcher from Compton Bishop, Somerset, was born in 1869. He attested into the 1st Dragoons on 11 August 1888 and served in England and Ireland until he transferred into the Army Reserve on 11 August 1895. Recalled on 7 October 1899, he was posted to the 6th Dragoons with whom he served in South Africa during the Boer War. He was discharged on 31 August 1901, and died in 1935.

Sold with copied service papers.