British and World Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (27204 Tpr. J. Macklam, 41st Coy. Imp. Yeo.) extremely fine £120-160

John Macklam was born in Durham. Serving in the 1st Volunteer Battalion Durham Light Infantry, he enlisted into the Imperial Yeomanry on 24 January 1901, aged 23 years. Posted to the 41st (Hampshire) Company Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa, he died of dysentery at Kroonstad on 22 April 1901. With (damaged and worn) original registered envelope addressed to his father: ‘Mr W. Macklam, 3 Clyde Place, Hartlepool’, together with copied service papers and roll extracts.