Pair: Corporal H. P. Gordon, Imperial Yeomanry, late Frontier Light Horse

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (302 Tpr., Frontr. l. Horse); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (9176 Cpl., 20th Coy. Imp. Yeo.), last clasp loose, together with corresponding miniature dress medals, very fine and better (4) £260-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals Formed by The Late A. A. Mount.

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20th (Fife & Forfar Light Horse) Company Imperial Yeomanry.

Hugh Percy Gordon was born in Brechin in Forfar. He enrolled into the Frontier Light Horse on 4 February and was discharged on 8 August 1879. In later life, as an accountant, he enlisted into the Imperial Yeomany on 11 January 1900, aged 35 years. Serving with the 20th (Fife & Forfar Light Horse) Company, 6th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa between 1 March 1900 and 24 June 1901. Sold with copied service papers and other copied research.