Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private L. E. Stimpson, 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers), later Royal Engineers

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (4005. Pte. L. Stimpson. 6/Drgn. Gds.) engraved naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4005 Pte. L. E. Stimpson. 6th. Drgn: Gds:); British War and Victory Medals (37882 Pnr. L. E. Stimpson. R.E.) edge bruising to Boer War pair, these nearly very fine; the Great War pair better (4) £160-£200

Leonard Edwin Stimpson was born in St. Pancras, London, in 1879, and attested for the 6th Dragoon Guards in London on 3 December 1898. He served two postings to South Africa from 9 February 1900 to 16 August 1900 and 11 March 1901 to 15 August 1902, before spending the next four years in India; his Army Service Record notes passing a class of instruction in nursing at Bangalore on 10 July 1903. Returned home 24 November 1906, Stimpson spent four years with the Army Reserve before taking his discharged after 12 years with the Colours in December 1910. He later served in France from 26 July 1915 as a Pioneer in the Corps of Royal Engineers and was discharged Class “Z” in July 1919.