Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (5740 Pte J. Jeanes. Somerset: Lt. Infy.) contact marks, otherwise very fine £70-£90

John Jeanes, a Labourer from Ashcott, Somerset, was born in December 1882. He attested into the Dorset Regiment on 19 January 1900 and was transferred to the Somerset Light Infantry two days later. He served in South Africa during the Boer War. The award of the Cape Colony clasp is unconfirmed on the medal roll. After further service in India, he returned home in 1907 and transferred to the Reserve the following year. Re-engaged in October 1911 he was discharged two years later. During the Great War, he attested in Toronto for service with the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 11 November 1914.

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