Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Private T. Roy, Scottish Rifles, late 1st and 2nd Dragoons

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (4402 Pte. T. Roy 2nd Dragoons); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4402 Pte. T. Roy, 2nd Drgns.); 1914-15 Star (9238 Pte. T. Roy, 1st Dns.); British War and Victory Medals (9238 Pte. T. Roy, 1-Dns.), good very fine or better (5) £300-350

Thomas Royal was severely wounded at Groenfontein, Transvaal, on 30 December 1901, while serving in the 2nd Dragoons.

Recalled on the outbreak of hostilities, he joined the 1st Dragoons and first entered the French theatre of war on 20 December 1914, although his MIC entry reveals subsequent service in the Scottish Rifles.