Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (16450 Trpr. A. Hanson, 69th Coy. Imp. Yeo.) good very fine £100-140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Sussex Yeomanry.

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Allen Edward Hansen was born in Kennington, Middlesex. Attested for the 1st Sussex Volunteer Artillery at Eastbourne on 24 February 1900, aged 20 years. Served in South Africa, 31 March 1900-24 August 1900; whilst there he served in the Provisional Transvaal Constabulary, June-July 1900. Admitted to Wynburg Hospital suffering from haemorhoids aggravated by active service on 31 July 1900; he was invalided to England on board the S.S. Assaye on 28 August 1900 and was discharged from the Army on 1 November 1900.

Having returned home, he re-engaged into the Imperial Yeomanry at Brighton on 28 October 1901. Served in South Africa, 9 November-15 December 1901. Hanson retired from the Army as a Lieutenant in the Imperial Yeomanry on 12 September 1902. With copied service details.