Orders, Decorations and Medals

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (8509 G. Glen, 19th Coy. 6th Impl. Yeo.), last clasp unofficially riveted, very fine £150-200

Graham Glen, a well-known Scottish portrait artist who was active in the years 1897-1925, was born in Edinburgh and enlisted in the Imperial Yeomanry in January 1900, aged 22 years. Posted to the 19th (Lothian and Berwickshire) Company, 6th Battalion, he served in South Africa from February of the same year until June 1901, and was discharged on his return to the U.K. in the following month; sold with copied service record which verifies the above described Medal & clasps.