Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, unofficial rivets between second and third clasps (Lieut. E. J. Stourton. 32. Co. Imp: Yeo.) engraved naming, housed in a damaged fitted leather case, extremely fine £300-£400

Everard Joseph Stourton was born at Knaresborough, Yorkshire, on 28 December 1864 and attested for the Imperial Yeomanry at Warwick on 2 January 1900, having previously served as a Lieutenant with the 3rd Battalion Cameron Highlanders. He served with the 5th (Warwickshire) Company, 2nd Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War from 20 January 1900, before being commissioned a Lieutenant in the 32nd (Lancashire Hussars) Company, 2nd Battalion, on 1 August 1900. He was captured and taken Prisoner of War whilst serving with the latter unit at Zeekoe River, along with another 55 men, on 7 April 1901, and was release the next day at Graaff-Reinet. He returned to England in time to have his medal presented to him in December 1901, and died at Forfar, Angus, on 2 March 1932.

Sold with copied service papers and other research.

For other medals to the Stourton family, see Lots 68 and 80.