Special Collections

Sold on 23 September 2005

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The Collection of Medals to the Leicester Regiment and Yeomanry formed by the late Trevor Harris

Trevor Henry Harris

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№ 182

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23 September 2005

Hammer Price:
£85

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (21473 Pte. W. Henton, 7th Coy. Imp. Yeo.), officially re-impressed naming, extremely fine; together with 1914-15 Star (8955 Pte. W. H. Henton, S. Staff. R.), good very fine (2) £40-60

No. 7 (Leicester) Company, 4th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry.

21473 Private W. H. Henton was discharged as medically unfit in October 1901 and his Medal and clasps were sent to his widow at Burton on Trent in December 1909; sold with two original photographic portrait postcards.