Three: Colour Serjeant G. Fox, East Yorkshire Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (4972 Cpl., 2nd E. Yorkshire Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (4972 Corpl., E. York. Regt.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (4972 C. Sjt., E. York. Regt.) edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (3) £120-150

George Fox enlisted into the East Yorkshire Regiment on 16 January 1895. As Company Serjeant-Major of the 3rd Battalion he was discharged due to his age on 15 January 1917. He was admitted to the Corporation Hospital Cottingham, near Hull, in October 1917 suffering from tuberculosis. In 1918 he was living at ‘1 Fountain Place, Great Union Street, Hull.’

With copied m.i.c. and papers relating to his discharge.