Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Trooper H. S. Cholmeley, 34th Company (Middlesex) Imperial Yeomanry, later a Voluntary Driver with the British Red Cross Society
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901 (6349 Tpr., 34th Coy., Imp. Yeo.), top clasp loose on ribbon; 1914-15 Star (H. S. Cholmeley; British War and Victory Medals, the pair with single initial ‘S’ only, good very fine (4) £70-100

Trooper Hugh Stephen Cholmeley joined the 34th Company (Middlesex) Imperial Yeomanry, 2 January 1900 at the age of 42. He was discharged at his own request 20 March 1901. During the Great War at the age of 57, being a man of means and presumably with his own motor car he set off for France in October 1915 and served as a Voluntary Driver with the British Red Cross Society. He died on 16 October 1931 leaving a fortune of £96,550 to his widow and two nephews. (With copies of Boer War Service papers, Great War M.I.C. and Last Will and Testament).