Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (3742 L. Sgt. E. Parker, Rl. Warwick Regt. M.I.) good very fine £140-180

Edward Parker was born in the Parish of Aston in Birmingham. A groom by occupation, he attested for the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in 1892, aged 18 years, 2 months. Present in South Africa between November 1899 and August 1902, he served with the 4th Mounted Infantry and was awarded the Queen’s medal with 5 clasps and the King’s medal with two. He was discharged in December 1904 but re-engaged for service with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in December 1915. Posted to France in February 1917 he was hit by a sniper on 9 May 1917, receiving a gun-shot wound through the right lung and fracture of the clavicle. Invalided back to England on 18 May, he recovered sufficiantly to be transferred to the Royal Army Medical Corps. Sold with 21 sheets of copied service papers. Medals named to mounted infantry units are scarce.