Three: Thomas Robson, Merchant Navy, late Yorkshire Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast, South Africa 1901 (1514 Pte. T. Robson, Yorkshire Regt.); British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (Thomas Robson) edge bruising, contact marks, nearly very fine (3) £120-160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals relating to the Boer War formed by two brothers.

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Thomas Robson was born in Newark, Nottinghamshire, on 27 June 1883. Served in the 1st Battalion Yorkshire Regiment during the Boer War and the Merchant Navy, Yorkshire Regiment and Royal Defence Corps during the Great War - entitled to the Silver War Badge.

With copied Q.S.A. roll extracts (only last clasp confirmed; others not found); m.i.c. and Merchant Navy details with photocopied photograph.