Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (124 L. Cpl: G. W. Spearman. Prince Alf: Vol: Gds:) good very fine £300-£400

George William Spearman was killed in action in a Boer attack near Middleburg, Bethlehem, on 9 August 1900. He was born in 1880, the youngest son of Irish émigré Daniel Spearman, of Tipperary, Ireland, and his wife Mary, and had resided with his parents in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. He had joined Prince Albert’s Volunteer Guard at its inception in October 1899, as can be seen by his early regimental number, and had been promoted to Lance Corporal just prior to his death.