Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivets between third and fourth clasps (8688 Cpl. J. Hamilton. 18th. Coy. 6th. Impl: Yeo:) edge bruising, polished and worn, therefore nearly very fine £200-£240

John Hamilton attested for the Imperial Yeomanry and served with the 18th (Queen’s Own Royal Glasgow and Lower Ward of Lanark) Company, 6th Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War.

Sold with the recipient’s flask, the lower steel part engraved ‘John Hamilton, Helensburgh’; the recipient’s telescope, by J. Brown, 76 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, in original leather carry case; a silver pocket watch, with Roman numerals and separate second dial, uninscribed, in a fitted Robert Anderson, 13 Exchange Place, Glasgow, case, with hallmarked silver chain and a ‘Scottish Band of Hope Union’ silver fob; and a portrait photograph of the recipient.