Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (90 Tpr: C. Richardson. Eastn: Prov: Horse) light contact marks, very fine £80-£100

Charles Richardson served during the Boer War as Trooper No. 90 in the Eastern Province Horse (discharged 15 November 1900 - time expired); Trooper No. 831 in the Johannesburg Rifles, and latterly as Trooper No. 1498 in Steinaecker’s Horse. He was discharged from the latter unit on 7 February 1903 upon the regiment’s disbandment (also entitled to a King’s South Africa Medal). A man by the name C. Richardson (who may be the same person) served in the British South Africa Police during the Matabele rebellion in 1896 and again during the 1897 campaign in Rhodesia.

Sold with copied medal roll extract and other research.