Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (23233 Pte. H. Douglas. 48th. Coy. Imp: Yeo:) unofficial rivets, good very fine £100-140

Henry Douglas was born in Faringdon, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) in 1874, and attested for the Imperial Yeomanry at Reading on 23 January 1901, having previously served in the Berkshire Volunteers. He served with the 58th (Berkshire) Company, 15th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa from 12 February 1901. Discharged as ‘inefficient’, he transferred to the 48th (North Somerset) Company, 7th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry and remained in South Africa until 25 August 1901. He was finally discharged on 2 September 1901, after 223 days’ service.