Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private E. Harston, Yorkshire Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (4707 Pte. E. Harston. York: Regt); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (4707 Pte. E. Harstin. [sic] York: Regt) very fine (2) £90-110

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the West Yorkshire (14th Foot) and Yorkshire (19th Foot) Regiments.

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Ernest Harston was born in Stockton, Durham, and attested for the 3rd Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment at Middlesborough, in February 1900. He served with the battalion during the Second Boer War, and was injured along with 23 other men of the battalion, as a result of a collision between two armoured trains near Burghersdorp, 31 January 1902. He purchased his own discharge, 6 May 1903.