Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, last clasp loose on riband as issued (11050 Pte. P. Quinn, 60th. Coy. 17th. Impl: Yeo:) good very fine £240-280

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2007.

Patrick Quinn was born in Shankill, Belfast, in 1879 and attested for service in the Imperial Yeomanry at Belfast on 9 February 1900, having previously served in the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards. He served with the 60th (North Irish Horse (Belfast)) Company, 17th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa from 6 April 1900 to 7 June 1901, and was discharged at Belfast on 15 June 1901, after 1 year and 127 days’ service.