Orders, Decorations and Medals

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (1751 Pte. W. Lambourne, 22nd Coy. 2nd Impl. Yeo.) edge bruise; Town of Northwich Tribute Medal 1900-01, obverse, a mounted trooper with a soldier standing by his side, ‘22nd Cheshire Compy. Imperial Yeomanry & Volunteers’, reverse, inscribed (name and rank engraved) ‘Presented by the Town of Northwich to Pte. W. Lambourne for Meritorious Service in South Africa 1900-1’, 38mm., bronze, unmounted as issued, good very fine (2) £500-600

Private W. Lambourne served in the 22nd (Cheshire) Company, 2nd Battalion Imperial Yeomanry. With copied roll extract. ‘Remarks’ shows that he joined the Cape Police on 31 August 1900.