Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Temporary Warrant Officer Class 1 J. Grundon, Army Service Corps, late Imperial Yeomanry Bearer Company

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Pte. J. Grundon, Imp. Yeomanry Bearer Coy.); British War and Victory Medals (SS-15125 T.W.O. Cl. 1 J. Grundon, A.S.C.), the first with one or two edge bruises, otherwise generally very fine (3) £160-180

James Grundon, who was born in Yorkshire in 1877, served in the Imperial Yeomanry Bearer Company as a stretcher-bearer and orderly during the Boer War, when he was attached to the Pretoria Detachment. He was re-embarked for England in November 1900 and settled in Wanstead, Essex, where he was employed as an insurance clerk. He rejoined the Colours in the Great War, serving as a Warrant Officer in the Army Service Corps, and died in Wakefield in January 1956; sold with copied research.