Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Lieutenant T.D. Seymour, Army Service Corps, late 6th Dragoons and Leicestershire Imperial Yeomanry

QUEEN'S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen, S.A. 1901 (2161 Cpl., 7th Coy. 4th Imp. Yeo.); 1914-15 STAR (Lieut., 6/Dns.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Lieut.); France, RECONNAISSANCE FRANCAISE, silver, very fine or better (5)

Thomas Dunbar Seymour was born at Ballymore Castle, Co. Galway, in 1869, his family being a younger branch of the ducal house of Somerset. He volunteered for service in South Africa and joined the Leicestershire Yeomanry Cavalry in January 1900, being discharged at the end of the war. During the Great War he served in the 6th Dragoons and 30th Divisional Mounted Troops, R.A.S.C.