Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sergeant W. B. Sheath, Military Foot Police

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (530 Corpl: W. Sheath. Mil: Foot Police); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (530 Corpl: W. J. [sic] Sheath. Mil: Foot Police); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (530 Sjt: W. B. Sheath. M.F.P.) good very fine (3) £200-£240

Walter Bertrand Sheath was born in Newport, Isle of Wight, in 1871 and attested for the Hampshire Regiment at Portsmouth on 26 June 1891, having previously served in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. He served with the 1st Battalion in India from 5 February 1893 to 2 April 1896, before transferring to the Military Foot Police on 6 January 1897. He served with the Foot Police in South Africa during the Boer War from 16 October 1899 to 13 November 1902, and was promoted Corporal on 1 April 1903, and Sergeant on 26 March 1907. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal per Army Order 270 of 1909, and was discharged on 25 June 1912, after 21 years’ service.

Sold with copied record of service.