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Auction: 20003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 352

Pair: Trooper R. Thompson, 9th Company, Yorkshire Hussars, 3rd Imperial Yeomanry Battalion, late 4th Hussars

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, (588 Pte. R. Thompson. 9th. Coy. 3rd. Imp: Yeo:); Yorkshire Imperial Yeomanry Medal for South Africa 1900-1902, 3rd Battalion reverse for South Africa 1900-01; (588 R. Thompson), good very fine (2)

Richard Thompson was from Pickering, Yorkshire, and having originally served in the 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars, then worked as a coachman in Keighley. At the outbreak of the Boer War he attested for service with the Imperial Yeomanry at Sheffield in January 1900, joining as a Trooper (No.588) the 9th Company - the Yorkshire Hussars, and served with it as part of the 3rd Imperial Yeomanry Battalion in South Africa, having embarked later that same month. Present on operations in the Cape Colony, Orange Free State and the Transvaal, he returned home in November 1900, and was discharged in January 1901.



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Estimate
£300 to £400

Starting price
£230

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