Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Corporal W. J. Henderson, Special Cape Police Contingent, late Rhodesia Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Relief of Mafeking, Transvaal (137 Tpr: W. J. Henderson. Rhod: Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (88 Cpl. W. J. Henderson. Spl. Cape Pol.) minor edge nicks, good very fine (2) £240-280

William James Henderson enlisted in Colonel Baden-Powell’s Regiment of the Frontier Force at Kimberley on 12 August 1899, and was subsequently transferred into the Rhodesia Regiment. He took part in the Relief of Mafeking, which was finally relieved on 17 May 1900, after which the Rhodesia Regiment was split up. Henderson was discharged at Pretoria on 18 October 1900, and then enlisted in the Special Cape Police Contingent on 12 November 1900, and served in that unit until taking his discharge on 30 April 1902.

Sold with copied Service Record, medal roll extract, and other research.