Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Staff Sergeant Major W. J. Carrack, Imperial Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (608 Pte., 9th Coy. 3rd Imp. Yeo.) ; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (22917 S.S. Major, I.Y.); Yorkshire Imperial Yeomanry 1900-1902, 3rd Battalion, South Africa 1900-1901 (608 W. J. Carrack) good very fine and better (3) £250-300

Sold with photocopied pages from The Yorkshire Hussars Magazine - A History of the Yorkshire Hussars in the Boer War and with copied service papers of the recipient.

William J. Carrack was born in the Parish of Roundhay, near Leeds, West Yorkshire. On 1.1.1900, having previously served in the Yorkshire Hussars, he attested for the Imperial Yeomanry, aged 30 years. He served in South Africa from 28.1.1900 until 21.7.1900 and was discharged at his own request on 19.11.1900. He attested again on 27.1.1901 and again served in South Africa from 9.2.1901 until 13.2.1902, being discharged as medically unfit on 21.4.1902. Research indicates that only 20 men from the 3rd Battalion Imperial Yeomanry gained the K.S.A. medal.