A Small Collection of Medals relating to the Disaster at Lindley on 31 May 1900

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (9572 Pte. A. Jones, 54th Coy. 13th Impl. Yeo.) good very fine £120-160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Medals relating to the Disaster at Lindley on 31 May 1900.

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Hubert Jones (note: ‘A’ Jones on medal) was born in Mohill, Co. Leitrim. A Grocer by occupation, he attested for the Imperial Yeomanry at Belfast on 5 February 1900, aged 21 years. Posted to the 54th (Belfast) Company 13th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry, he served in South Africa, 3 March 1900-7 June 1901. He was taken prisoner at Lindley, 31 May 1900. Jones was discharged at Belfast on 15 June 1901. His papers record that he was a ‘Good horsemaster - acted as Farrier and Shoeing Smith on Service.’ With copied service papers.