Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

South Africa 1834-53 (H. Yateman. 91st Regt.) nearly very fine £300-360

Henry Yateman was born in the Parish of Chesterton, near Bicester, Oxfordshire, and enlisted into the 91st Regiment at Buckingham on 31 July 1845, aged 17 years 10 months, a labourer by trade. He served in South Africa for 6 years and 2 months, being present during the 3rd Kaffir War of 1850-53, and also saw service in the Mediterranean and in India. He was discharged at his own request on 22 August 1860. Sold with copied discharge papers.