Orders, Decorations and Medals

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Rhodesia, Relief of Mafeking, Orange Free State, Transvaal, S.A. 1901 (Lieut. A. N. White, W. Rid. Rgt.) good very fine and very rare to the regiment £250-300

Arthur Norman White served as a Trooper in the Southern Rhodesia Volunteers to qualify for the first three clasps. He was commissioned Supernumary 2nd Lieutenant, West Riding Regiment, with effect from 19 May 1900, two days after the relief of Mafeking. White subsequently served with the 8th Mounted Infantry Battalion and as Acting Quartermaster to the 22nd M.I. Battalion. He was present with a detachment of the 8th M.I. at the spirited action at Bothaville (Doornkraal Farm) on 6 November 1900, when the gallant Jerseyman Colonel Le Gallais was mortally wounded (Ref The Times History of the War in South Africa). White was attached to the King’s African Rifles on 6 June 1902 and resigned his commission in May 1903.