Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Corporal W. Amoss, Essex Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (4873 Pte . W. D. Amoss, 1st. Essex Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4873 Corpl: W. Amoss. Essex Regt.) light contact marks and minor edge bruising, very fine and better (2) £140-£180

William Douglas Amoss was born in Woodford, Essex, in 1879 and attested for the Essex Regiment at Stratford on 14 June 1897, having previously served with the Regiment’s 4th Battalion. He served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War from 11 November 1899 to 14 August 1902, asnd then in India from 15 August 1902 tro 26 October 1903, and in China from 27 October 1903 to 13 June 1909. He was discharged on the latter date, after 12 years’ service.

Sold with copied service papers, which states that the recipient was additionally entitled to the claps Diamond Hill and Belfast to his Queen’s South Africa Medal.