Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 unofficial retaining rod between state and date clasps (26805 Pte. J. T. Scott. 9th. Coy. Imp: Yeo:) edge bruising, nearly very fine £140-180

John Thomas Scott was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, in 1877 and attested for the Imperial Yeomanry at Doncaster on 13 February 1901. He served with the 9th (Yorkshire Hussars) Company, 3rd Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Boer War from 13 March 1901, and died of enteric fever at Dordrecht on 4 February 1902, after 357 days’ service.