Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902 (6722 Pte. F. [sic] Storr. Manch: Regt.) edge nicks, polished and worn, good fine £60-£80

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 Storr was born near Boston, Lincolnshire, in 1882 and attested for service with 4th (Militia) Battalion the Manchester Regiment at the age of 17 in March 1899, being allotted service number 6722; three weeks later he failed to report for duty and was deemed to have deserted. Despite his desertion, he joined the Lancashire Volunteer Artillery on 26 March 1901, as a Gunner. He returned to Manchester as he is recorded as having been arrested for desertion but a trial was deemed unnecessary and he was released on volunteering for service overseas with 6th (Militia) Battalion, in South Africa. He arrived there in March 1902 and saw service on the blockhouse line between Jagersfontein and Achterlong, and later Tweedale. The battalion returned to the U.K. in September 1902 and the battalion was disembodied. Storr was discharged ‘time expired’ on 5 January 1908.

Sold with copied service papers.