Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (15908 Sgt. Far. T. Read. 77th Coy. 8th Imp. Yeo.) minor edge nicks, otherwise good very fine £120-£160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Robert Barltrop Collection of Medals to the Manchester Regiment.

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Thomas Read was born at Hulme, Manchester, and attested for service in the Imperial Yeomanry, as a Farrier, at Manchester on 19 March 1900. He served in 77 (Manchester) Company, 8th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry, but is also shown as having service in 32nd Battalion Imperial Yeomanry. He was discharged in South Africa on 27 July 1900 in order to join the Provisional Transvaal Constabulary as Farrier Sergeant and served with them from 28 July 1900 to 15 March 1901.

Sold with copied service papers.