Orders, Decorations and Medals

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901 (31410 Tpr. E. W. Bancroft, P. of W. Lt. Horse) the reverse of the second clasp fitted with a brooch-pin device for wearing, otherwise very fine £100-120

Earl William Bancroft was taken prisoner at Witkopjes on 18 April 1901. As reported back in London on the 28th, the Boers ‘captured after a severe fight 25 men of the Prince of Wales’s Light Horse, whom they stripped of their horses and accoutrements and then liberated.’