Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Capt. E. E. Hutton, 31/Co. 9/Imp. Yeo.), good very fine £220-260

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to Welsh Regiments formed by the Late Llewellyn Lord.

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Ernest Edward Hutton was appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the Denbighshire Hussars in January 1900, the same month in which he transferred to the Imperial Yeomanry ‘to be a Machine Gun Commander’ (London Gazette 6 February 1900, refers). He was indeed given command of a Gun Section in the 9th (Welsh) Battalion, which was equipped with two Colt quick-firing guns, and went on to witness active service in South Africa with the 31st and 49th Companies. Invalided home in May 1900, he returned to South Africa as a Captain in the 4th Battalion, I.Y., and ended the war as second-in-command of the 36th Battalion, in the temporary rank of Major. He resigned his commission in early 1903; sold with copied research.