Orders, Decorations and Medals

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (27355 Pte. E. Walker, 48th Coy. Imp. Yeo.) good very fine £160-200

Ernest Walker was born in Ousney, near Oxford. A Publican by occupation, he attested for the Imperial Yeomanry at Bath on 19 February 1901, aged 21 years, 11 months. Posted to the 48th Company, 7th Battalion (North Somerset) Imperial Yeomanry, he served in South Africa, 16 March 1901-4 August 1902. Returning home, he was discharged at Aldershot on 11 August 1902. With copied service papers.