Pair: Corporal E. Bell, Transvaal Mounted Rifles, late (Leicestershire) Imperial Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Wittebergen (2230 Pte., 7th Coy. 4th Imp. Yeo.); Natal 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (Cpl., Transvaal Mtd. Rifles), edge bruising, very fine and better (2) £180-220

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. 7 (Leicester) Company, 4th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry.

Ernest Bell was born at Bourne, Lincolnshire and enlisted in the Imperial Yeomanry in January 1900, aged 35 years. He was subsequently discharged in South Africa in November of the same year, in order that he could take up an appointment in the Johannesburg Police.