Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (14194 Tpr: G. P. Mortimer, 47th. Coy. 13th. Impl: Yeo:) good very fine £100-140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Queen’s South Africa Medals to the Imperial Yeomanry.

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George Pearse Mortimer was born in Dunsford, Devon, in 1877 and attested for the Imperial Yeomanry in London on 7 February 1900. He served with the 47th (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) Company, 13th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Boer War from 1 March 1900 to 7 June 1901, being taken Prisoner of War at Lindley on 31 May 1900. Released, he was discharged at Belfast on 15 June 1901, after 1 year and 129 days’ service.