Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Orange Free State, Transvaal (11214 Tpr: W. Home, 61st Coy 17th Imp: Yeo:) clasp carriage reconstituted, very fine £280-£340

William Home was born in Dublin, Ireland. He attested for the Imperial Yeomanry at Newbridge in January 1900, and served with the 61st (South Irish Horse) Company, 17th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry during the Second Boer War (additionally entitled to the ‘South Africa 1901’ clasp, service papers also give ‘Wounded Left Knee, Houtkraal, 22 December 1900’ for the campaign).