Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Captain T. H. Body, Royal Army Medical Corps, late Imperial Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (4440 Pte. T. H. Body, 33rd Coy. 11th Imp: Yeo:); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Transvaal (Civil Surgeon T. H. Body.); 1914 Star (Lieut: T. H. Body. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. T. H. Body.) nearly extremely fine and a scarce double issue (5) £260-300

Thomas Howard Body was born at Wittersham, near, Ashford, Kent, and attested for the Imperial Yeomanry at Canterbury on 31 January 1900, a medical student, aged 24 years. He served with the 33rd Company 11th Battalion I.Y in South Africa from 28 February to 25 July 1900, and was discharged at his own request from further services in connection with the war in South Africa on 30 September 1900. He continued his medical studies at Guy’s Hospital, qualifying as M.R.C.S., L.R.C.D. Lond. in 1901. He returned to South Africa for further service as a Civil Surgeon and is named on the rolls of both units, earning clasps for Cape Colony and Orange Free State in the Imperial Yeomanry, and the clasp for Transvaal as a Civil Surgeon attached to the R.A.M.C. Commissioned as Temporary Lieutenant, R.A.M.C., 20 August 1915, and Temporary Captain, 20 September 1914, he was disembarked in France on 17 October 1914. Sold with copied discharge papers and copied m.i.c.