Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Second Lieutenant G. L. Ware, 1st Cape Corps, late 6th South African Horse and Imperial Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (35725 Pte. G. L. Ware, 6th Coy. Imp: Yeo:); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (2nd Lt. G. L. Ware) nearly extremely fine (3) £150-200

George Lawrence Ware was born at Ipswich, Suffolk, and attested for the Imperial Yeomanry at London on 1 March 1901. He served in South Africa from March 1901 to July 1902, when he was invalided home with enteric fever, and discharged on 9 August 1902. He served during the Great War in the South African Expeditionary Force in German East Africa as Regimental Sergeant-Major, 6th South African Horse, from 3 April to 29 December, 1916. He was demobilised at Wynberg on 1 March 1917, and commissioned as a Temporary 2nd Lieutenant on 16 July 1917, for service with 1st Battalion, Cape Corps, in East Africa. Sold with copied service papers which note that he had a gun shot wound on his right thigh.