Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (21187 Pte. C. Edwards. 48th. Coy. Imp: Yeo:) edge bruising, good very fine £80-120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Queen’s South Africa Medals to the Imperial Yeomanry.

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Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 2010.

Charles Edwards was born near Bristol in 1880 and attested for the Imperial Yeomanry at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, on 26 January 1901. He served with the 48th (North Somerset) Company, 7th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Boer War from 11 February 1901 to 22 June 1902.