Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Saddler Sergeant H. Martin, 48th North Somerset Imperial Yeomanry, Berkshire Yeomanry, and Special Constabulary

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Transvaal, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901 unofficial rivets between clasps (23203 Pte. H. Martin 48th Coy Imp: Yeo:); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (909 Sd. Sjt: H. Martin Berks: Yeo:); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Harry Martin) first two mounted as worn, the third loose, light contact marks, nearly very fine and better (3) £300-£400

Harry Martin served with the 48th (North Somerset) Company, 7th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Boer War: the latest published Casualty Roll lists a ‘370 Private H. Martin, 7 Imperial Yeomanry’ as being wounded at Vlakfontein on 29 May 1901. Martin subsequently served with the Berkshire Yeomanry at Home during the Great War, and consequently did not qualify for any Great War Medals.