Orders, Decorations and Medals

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (22485 Tpr. P. Golding, 69th Coy. Imp. Yeo.), dated clasps loose on riband, good very fine £200-250

Percy Goldney Golding was born in Farnham, Surrey, the son of Noah Golding, and enlisted in the Imperial Yeomanry in January 1901, direct from the 2nd South Middlesex Militia. Posted to the 69th (Sussex) Company, 7th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, he served in South Africa from February 1901 to August 1902, his service record confirming his entitlement to the above described Medal and clasps. Moreover, on the 69th Company having transferred to the 14th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, he was slightly wounded at Vlakfontein on 29 May 1901 – his discharge papers noting a ‘gunshot wound, left thigh.’

See lots 219 and 587 for brothers medals.