Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private T. Silverwood, Steinaecker’s Horse, late Kaffrarian Rifles and Queenstown Mounted Infantry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (968 Pte. T. Silverwood. Kaffrn: Rifles); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (107 Tpr: T. Silverwood. Steinaecker’s H.) edge bruise to QSA, good very fine (2) £180-£220

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2011.

Thomas Silverwood was born in 1871 and attested for the Kaffrarian Rifles in January 1900. He served with them for 20 months before transferring to the Queenstown Mounted Infantry in September 1901, and then to the Special Squadron, Steinaecker’s Horse on 20 February 1902. He was discharged at Pretoria on 15 July 1902 on the disbandment of the Squadron.

Sold with copied medal roll extracts and biographical research.