Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Squadron Quarter-Master Sergeant H. S. Avery, 1st Company (Wiltshire) Imperial Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (152 S.Q.M. Sgt., 1st Coy. Wilts. Imp. Yeo.) rank officially corrected; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (152 C. Qr.-Mr.-Serjt., I.Y.) toned, extremely fine (2) £100-120

Harry Sydney Avery was born in Kentish Town, London. He was a Bank Clerk by profession and attested for the 1st Wiltshire Imperial Yeomanry at Trowbridge on 1 January 1900. He served in South Africa from 1 March 1900, until he was discharged at Elandsfontein on 28 July 1902, at his own request to take up civil employment in Johannesburg. Sold with copy service and discharge papers.