Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant G. E. N. Swainston-Strangwayes, York Hussars, late Sergeant, Wiltshire Imperial Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut: G. S. Strangwayes, 3/Wilts, I.Y.); Yorkshire Imperial Yeomanry 1900-1902, 3rd Battalion, South Africa 1901-1902 (Lieut. G. Swainston - Strangwayes.) generally nearly very fine or better (2) £260-300

Giles Edmond Neville Swainston-Strangwayes was born in Skelton, Yorkshire, in 1871. He was the son of John Swainston-Strangwayes, and initially served during the Second Boer War as a Sergeant with the 2nd (Wiltshire) Company, 1st Battalion Imperial Yeomanry, prior to be commissioned in the York Hussars. He died in Stockton on Tees in December 1937.