Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Lieutenant W. H. Wills, Middlesex Imperial Yeomanry

British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Rhodesia 1896 (Hon. Lieut., Belingwe Field Force); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Wittebergen (Lieut., 35/Co. 11/Imp. Yeo.) contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise very fine and better (2) £280-320

Walter Harry Wills was born on 17 November 1870, and educated at Dulwich College. Together with his brother, William Arthur Wills, and C. C. Cannell, he founded The African Review in London in 1892. The two brothers went to Rhodesia in 1896 and took part in the 2nd Matabele Campaign. Walter Wills also took part in the South African War, with the Middlesex Yeomanry, becoming Lieutenant in 1901. He appears to have remained in South Africa after the war as a Staff Officer in the Colonial Defence Force, and started a business in Johannesburg with his brother called Wills Bros. & Haggard. William A. Wills was also the author of The Downfall of Lobengula, published in 1894.