Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Squadron Quarter Master Sergeant A. S. Tanner, Middlesex (Duke of Cambridge’s Hussars) Imperial Yeomanry, late City of London Imperial Volunteers

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (1200 Pte. A. S. Tanner. C.I.V.); Imperial Yeomanry L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (1746 S.Q.M. Sjt. A. S. Tanner. Middx: (D.O.C. Hrs.) I.Y.) light contact marks, therefore nearly very fine or better (2) £500-600

Albert Stringer Tanner was employed as an Architect and Surveyor, and resided at ‘Winchombe Manor, Crundale, near Canterbury.’ He served with the C.I.V. and the 2/5 Middlesex prior to serving as a Private with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps during the Great War (entitled to the BWM and VM).

Tanner was awarded his Imperial Yeomanry L.S. & G.C. Medal in May 1907, one of 25 to the unit.