Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (5520 Pte. J. H. Spencer. 17th. Lancers.) very fine £100-140

James Henry Spencer was born at Saltley, Warwickshire, and attested for the 17th Lancers at Edinburgh. He served with them in South Africa during the Boer War, and on the Western Front during the Great War, and was killed in action at the Battle of Frenzenburg Ridge on 13 May 1915. He has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.