Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Colour Sergeant S. Rye, Royal Sussex Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (165 C. Sgt., Rl. Sussex Regt.); Army L.S.& G.C., V.R. (165 C/Sgt., R. Sux. R.) slight edge bruising, contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £160-200

Stephen Rye was born in Minster on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent. A labourer by occupation, he attested for the Royal Sussex Regiment on 30 August 1881, aged 19 years, 6 months. With the regiment he served in the Mediterranean, 1882-85, Egypt, 1885 and South Africa, 29 March 1901-14 March 1902. Attaining the rank of Colour Sergeant in 1889, he was discharged at his own request in 1907. Sold with copied service papers. Clasps confirmed.