Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Driver C. Guillod, Natal Field Artillery, late Weenen Yeomanry

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (Sergt. Guillod, Weenen Yeomy.); Natal 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (Dvr. C. Guillod, A Battery N.F.A.), generally extremely fine, the first rare (2) £600-800

Believed to be a pair of awards.

Just 19 Medals were issued to the Weenen Yeomanry. The unit was originally based at Weston under Lieutenant Popham, but moved to Gretna Green, near Mpafana, from whence it carried out patrols - see the recently published For God, Queen and Colony, by Terry Sole, for further details.