The Queen’s South Africa Medal awarded to Private Cecil R. Renny-Tailyour, 44th (Suffolk) Company, Imperial Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (20199 Pte. C. R. Tailyour-Rennie. 44th Coy. I.Y.) mounted as worn, toned, extremely fine £80-£100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals and Decorations to the Renny-Tailyour Family.

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Cecil R. Renny-Tailyour was born in 1882, second son of Henry Waugh Renny-Tailyour, Colonel, Royal Engineers. He served in South Africa with the 44th (Suffolk) Company, 12th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, and was discharged medically unfit on 24 December 1901. He died unmarried on 25 March 1911, of blackwater fever, whilst employed as Assistant Engineer on the Baro-Kano Railway, Northern Nigeria. Medal roll confirms name as ‘Tailyour-Kennie’ (sic).

Sold with cabinet portrait photograph in uniform prior to departure to South Africa and four others taken in South Africa, together with two official letters concerning his death.