Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (4672 Trpr: W. Whitfield, 41st Coy 12th Imp: Yeo:) good very fine £100-£140

William Whitfield was born at Newport, Isle of Wight, and enlisted there for the 41st Company (Hampshire Carabiniers) Imperial Yeomanry, on 8 January 1900, aged 25 years 3 months, a boundary rider by trade. He served in South Africa from 31 January 1900 to 4 January 1901, and was discharged on 21 April 1901. His death was announced in the Isle of Wight County Press on 31 December 1949. Sold with copied discharge papers and obituary notice.