Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902, Transvaal, top clasp loose on riband (34608 Tpr: E. Wright. 88th. Coy. Imp: Yeo:) suspension claw crudely re-riveted, edge bruising, nearly very fine £60-£80

Edwin Wright was born in Wrexham in 1877 and attested for the Imperial Yeomanry at Ruabon on 5 March 1901. He served with the 88th (Welsh Yeomanry) Company, 9th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Boer War from 6 April 1901 to 27 August 1902, and was discharged on 3 September 1902, after 1 year and 182 days’ service.

Sold with copied service papers and medal roll extracts which confirm he is entitled to the clasps Cape Colony, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, and South Africa 1902.