A Collection of Medals for the Anglo-Boer War

Pair: Private J. W. Broadhead, 7th Company, 4th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (25059 Pte. J. W. Broadhead, 7th Coy. Imp. Yeo.); Yorkshire Imperial Yeomanry 1900-1902, 3rd Battalion, South Africa 1901-1902 (23059 Pte. J. W. Broadhead) edge bruising, very fine (lot) £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals for the Anglo-Boer War.

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John William Broadhead was born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. A Gentleman’s Servant by occupation, he attested for short service with the Imperial Yeomanry at Doncaster on 28 January 1901, aged 27 years. He served with the 7th (Leicestershire) Company, 4th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa, February 1901-August 1902. He was discharged at the termination of his engagement at Aldershot on 18 August 1902.

With a portrait photograph of Mr Broadhead in civilian attire; an ‘Anglo-Boer War 1899-1900’ card ‘From the Inhabitants of Kimberley, with best wishes for a Merry ‘Xmas and a Prosperous New Year’, in envelope inscribed, ‘Presented to me on the 1st January 1901 at the Town Hall Kimberley’; a single sheet, one-sided newspaper, The Bechuanaland News, 21 September 1900, with news of the war; Imperial Yeomanry buttons (5) white metal; a brooch (damaged) made up of two Z.A.R. 6d coins and two Z.A.R. 3d coins; South Africa 1900 chocolate tin (empty); together with copied service papers, census and roll extracts.