Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivets between last two clasps (102 Pte. W. Eley, Rifle Brigade.) edge bruising, otherwise good very fine £100-140

William Eley was born at Chelmsford, Essex, in 1872 and attested for the Rifle Brigade at Warley on 1 January 1891. He served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War, before taking his discharge on 21 March 1902, after 11 years and 80 days’ service.