Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A R.V.M. pair awarded to Quartermaster Sergeant G. Winter, Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars, late Imperial Yeomanry

Royal Victorian Medal, E.VII.R., silver, unnamed as issued; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (8034 Q.M. Sgt. G. Winter, 40th. Coy. 10th. Impl: Yeo:) mounted as worn, and housed in a Spink, London, case of issue; together with the related miniature awards, these similarly mounted, extremely fine (2) £400-£500

George Winter served with the 40th (Oxfordshire) Company, 10th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Boer War, and later as Sergeant Major of the Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars. He was awarded the Royal Victorian Medal in silver on 22 July 1907, reputedly as consolation for not having been awarded the 1902 Coronation Medal.