Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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 (36520 Tpr: W. E. Rhoades. 50th. Coy. Imp: Yeo:) extremely fine £80-£100

William Edward Rhoades was born in Reading, Berkshire, in 1876 and attested for the Imperial Yeomanry at Winchester on 14 March 1901. He served with the 50th (Hampshire) Company, 17th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Boer War from 24 March 1901 to 29 July 1902, and was discharged on 5 August 1902.

Sold with copied record of service and medal roll extracts.