Orders, Decorations and Medals

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Defence of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (2190 Pte. T. Worrall, Rifle Brigade), minor contact marks and edge nicks, very fine £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Cheshire and Manchester Regiments, Rifle Brigade and Royal Green Jackets formed by the late David Boniface.

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Thomas Worrall was born in Whitechapel, London and enlisted in the Rifle Brigade in March 1892, aged 18 years. Having then served in the 1st Battalion in Hong Kong and Singapore 1894-96, he joined the 2nd Battalion in Egypt in July 1898, with whom he won entitlement to the Queen’s and Khedive’s Sudan Medals, the latter for “Khartoum”. Later that year he was re-embarked for Crete, where he served until October 1899, the commencement of the Boer War. He was subsequently severely wounded in the night attack on “Surprise Hill” at Ladysmith on 10-11 December 1899. Returning to the U.K., he was placed on the Army Reserve in March 1903 and was finally discharged in August of the following year.