Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Private W. G. Tidbury, 7th South African Infantry, late Gorringe’s Flying Column

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901 (Tpr., Gorringe’s F.C.); British War Medal 1914-20 Pte., 7th S.A.I.) nearly extremely fine (2) £100-140

William George Tidbury was born in the Cape Colony and served in Gorringe’s Flying Column during the Boer War. He served in an Ammunition Column for a short time in the war against German S.W. Africa and attested for the S.A.E.F. at Potchefstroom on 29 February 1916, then aged 36 years. Posted to the 7th South African Infantry but was discharged in December 1916. With copied roll extract and W.W.1 service papers.