Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Trooper E. E. Squibb, 50th (Hampshire) Company, Imperial Yeomanry, later Portsmouth Police

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (36481 Tpr: E. E. Squibb. 50th. Coy. Imp: Yeo:) minor official correction to surname; Coronation 1911, County and Borough Police (P.C. C. Squibb. Portsmouth. 10 Years.) edge bruising to first, nearly very fine and better (2) £140-£180

Charles Squibb was born at Blandford, Dorset, in 1879 and attested for the Imperial Yeomanry at Winchester on 12 February 1901, serving with the 50th (Hampshire) Company, 17th Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War from 24 March 1902 to 29 July 1902. He was discharged on 5 August 1902, and subsequently joined the Portsmouth Police.

Note: The recipient’s service papers are signed under the name of 36481 Charles Squibb; the medal roll for the Queen’s South Africa Medal lists him initially as 36481 Squibb, C., with the initial crossed out and replaced by the initials E. E.

Sold with copied record of service and medal roll extract.