Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (1562 Bglr: T. Green, Somerset: Lt. Inft.) initial officially corrected, minor edge bruise, very fine £120-160

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 2012.

Thomas Green was born in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, in 1868 and attested for the Somerset Light Infantry at Worcester on 14 April 1886, whilst currently serving with the 4th (Militia) Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Appointed Bugler in June 1893, he served with the Regiment in India from November 1888 to February 1894, and in South Africa during the Boer War from November 1899 to April 1903. He was discharged on 13 April 1907, after 21 years’ service. With the onset of the Great War he attested at Worcester on 22 October 1914, aged 46 years. Serving at Home he was discharged as no longer physically fit on 28 August 1916, and died on 18 January 1951.