Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (24325 Pte. J. E. Hunt, 65th Coy. Imp. Yeo.) good very fine £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Leicester Regiment and Yeomanry formed by the late Trevor Harris.

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No. 65 (Leicester) Company, 17th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry.

John Edward Hunt was born in Leicester and enlisted in the Imperial Yeomanry in February 1901, aged 21 years. He subsequently served in South Africa from March of the latter year until July 1902, but spent the last three months of this overseas engagement on hard labour, having been convicted by Court Martial for misdemeanours unknown that March. Hunt was discharged as ‘medically unfit’ at Shorncliffe soon after his return to the U.K.