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

Three: Lieutenant A. J. Liddiard, Army Service Corps, late (Leicestershire) Imperial Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901 (12001 Tpr., 65th Coy. 17th Impl. Yeo.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.), the first with edge bruising, very fine or better (3) £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Leicester Regiment and Yeomanry formed by the late Trevor Harris.

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No. 65 (Leicester) Company, 17th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry.

Alec John Liddiard was born in Leicester and enlisted in the Imperial Yeomanry in February 1900, aged 24 years. He subsequently served in South Africa from April 1900 until May 1901, and qualified for the above described Medal and clasps (service papers refer). Liddiard, who was discharged on his return to the U.K., was appointed a Lieutenant in the Army Service Corps (T.F.) in July 1917.