Three: Private F. Whyler, Rifle Brigade, late Derbyshire Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (1831 Pte. F. Wyler, Derby. Regt.) replacement suspension fitted; British War and Victory Medals (1005 Pte. F. Whyler, Rif. Brig.) note variation in surname, edge bruising and contact marks, fine (3) £100-140

Private Francis Wyler/Whyler, 4th Battalion Derbyshire Regiment, was taken prisoner at Roodeval, 7 June 1900. Later released. In the Great War Whyler attested into the 21st (Midland) Foreign Service T.F. Provisional Battalion [later Garrison] Battalion, Rifle Brigade and served in France, Egypt, Palestine and India. At the start of the Second World War, Francis Whyler, then aged 73 and wearing his medals, attempted to volunteer for the Notts T.A. - only to be told that nobody over the age of 55 could be accepted! (ref. The Nottingham Evening Post, 2 September 1939). With copied roll extracts confirming clasps and m.i.c.

Francis Wyler/Whyler was the son of William Wiler. See lot 520 for his father’s medals.