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9 & 10 May 2018

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Lot

№ 577

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9 May 2018

Hammer Price:
£420

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Relief of Mafeking, Rhodesia, Orange Free State, Transvaal (20115 Sjt: J. H. Lyon. Brabant’s Horse) extremely fine £300-400

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 2008.

James Harper Lyon was born in Scotland c. 1870, and emigrated to South Africa as a prospector/ miner. He enlisted in Colonel Baden-Powell’s Regiment of the Frontier Force on 26 February 1900, and then transferred into “E” Squadron, Rhodesia Regiment with the rank of Trooper. Following the Relief of Mafeking the Rhodesia Regiment was disbanded; Lyon himself was discharged from the Regiment at Pretoria on 18 October 1900.

On 5 November 1900 Lyon enlisted as a Trooper in the 2nd Regiment, Brabant’s Horse, for a period of six months. Advanced Sergeant, he was discharged on 16 May 1901. He next enlisted as a Trooper in Driscoll’s Scouts, at Bulawayo on 8 June 1901, again for a period of six months, and remained with that Regiment until being discharged at Cape Town on 7 January 1902. Finally, he enlisted as a Sergeant in the Border Scouts, at Cape Town on 17 February 1902, again for a period of six months. He stayed with the Regiment until the cessation of hostilities, being discharged for the last time on the disbandment of the Corps at Cape Town on 21 August 1902.

Sold with copied service papers and medal roll extracts.