Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (8979 Corl.-Whlr: E. B. Timcombe, A.S.C.) good very fine £120-£140

Edmund Beard Tincombe was born at Honiton, Devon, and enlisted into the Army Service Corps at Honiton, from the 4th Devon Militia, on 8 August 1889, aged 17 years 10 months, a coach builder by trade. He was transferred to the Army Reserve in August 1894 but recalled to the Army on 7 October 1899, for service in South Africa (Queen’s Medal with 6 clasps, King’s Medal with 2 clasps). He was discharged on 22 August 1902, but was again recalled for service in the Great War and entered France on 19 May 1915 (1914-15 Trio). He finished the war in the rank of Wheeler Staff Sergeant and also saw service with the Royal Fusiliers (No. 53072). Sold with copied discharge papers, m.i.c. and medal roll entries.