The Collection of Medals to Welsh Regiments formed by the Late Llewellyn Lord

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (4128 Far.-Sjt. R. P. Williams, 30th Coy. 9th Imp. Yeo.), extensive official corrections to naming, upper clasp slightly bent, good very fine £140-160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to Welsh Regiments formed by the Late Llewellyn Lord.

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Ralph Paynter Williams was born in Wales in December 1879, the son of the Rev. D. E. Williams, and was educated at Haileybury School and the Royal Veterinary College. Enlisting in the Imperial Yeomanry shortly after the outbreak of hostilities in South Africa, he was appointed a Farrier-Sergeant in the 30th (Pembrokeshire) Company, 9th (Welsh) Battalion and he was similarly employed at the time of his death in action, aged 21 years, at Ventersburg on 23 August 1900. He was buried in the local cemetery.