Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Boer War C.B. group of three awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Keith Wylie, Hon. Colonel, 3rd Battalion West Riding Regiment

ORDER OF THE BATH, C.B. (Military) silver gilt and enamels, fitted with unofficial straight swivel suspender, QUEEN'S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (Col., W. Riding Regt.) officially impressed naming; KING'S SOUTH AFRICA, 2 clasps (Col., C.B., W. Rid. Regt.) officially engraved naming, some slight enamel damage to the first, otherwise very fine (3)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals to the Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment from the Collection of Mr Donald Hall.

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Colonel Wyllie commanded 3rd Battalion West Riding Regiment during embodiment, in South Africa 1900-1902. He was Commandant at Simon's Town from July 1900, to January 1901; at Wynberg from January to March 1901, and was also Commandant of a Prisoner of War Camp for a short period in 1900. He was mentioned in despatches 29 November 1900, and created C.B. Wyllie was appointed Hon. Colonel of the 3rd Battalion in 1906 and was Chairman R.S.P.C.A. from 1926 until his death in 1928.