Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Quartermaster and Lieutenant H. W. Johnson, York and Lancaster Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith (5033 Pte., 1 Yk. & Lanc. Regt.); 1914-15 Star (5033 S. Mjr., York & Lanc. R); British War and Victory Medals (Q.M. & Lieut.); Army L.S.& G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (5033 Sjt., York & Lanc. Regt.), mounted as worn, good very fine and better (5) £200-260

Henry William Johnson served in the 1st Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment in South Africa and was awarded the Q.S.A. with three clasps; the medal being delivered to him when serving with the 2nd Battalion in India. With the onset of the Great War, Johnson was serving as a Sergeant-Major in the York and Lancaster Regiment, attached to the Nigeria Regiment. He was later commissioned a Quartermaster and Lieutenant. Sold with copied Q.S.A. roll extract and m.i.c.