Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Lieutenant William Burdett, 10th Hussars

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg (3513 Cpl. W. Burdett, 10th Hussars); 1914 Star, with contemporary slide clasp (3513 Sq. Q.M. Sjt. W. Burdett. 10/Hrs.); British War and Victory Medals, with small M.I.D. oak leaf (Lieut. W. Burdett.); Delhi Durbar 1911 (S.Q.M.S. W. Burdett. X.R.H.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (3513 Sq. Q.M. Sjt: W. Burdett. 10/Hrs.) together with companion set of 6 miniature medals, both sets mounted as worn, light contact marks, otherwise good very fine and better (12) £400-£460

William Burdett served in the ranks with the 10th Hussars in South Africa 1900. Present in the Relief of Kimberley, operations in the Orange Free State including operations at Paardeberg and action at Driefontein (Queen’s medal with 3 clasps [sic]). He served in France and Belgium from 6 October 1914, was commissioned on 19 December 1915, and was Adjutant of the Cavalry Corps Equitation School from 30 October 1917, until the end of the war. He was mentioned in despatches, London Gazette 5 July 1919.

Sold with a fine coloured portrait photograph of the recipient in uniform with pre-war ribbons, and Copy of Birth Certificate which records his marriage as Serjeant, 10th Royal Hussars, to Rose Bell at Warmington, Northants, on 22 October 1902.