Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Sergeant W. Scott, South Lancashire Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (2785 Serjt: W. Scott. S. Lanc: Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2785 Serjt: W. Scott. S. Lanc: Regt.) minor edge bruise to QSA, good very fine (2) £200-240

William John Scott was born William Jordan Crail on 31 December 1870, and attested for the South Lancashire Regiment using his mother’s maiden name ‘Scott’. He served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War, and died in Jublapore, India, on 19 June 1903.

Sold with a small portrait photograph of the recipient; copied medal roll extracts; and other research.