Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Rhodesia, Relief of Mafeking, Transvaal (4292 Shg:-Sth: G. Farrer. 7th Dragoon Gds:) good very fine and rare £400-£500

Attached to “C” Squadron, Rhodesia Regiment; believed to be unique to 7th Dragoon Guards.

George Farrer was born in the Parish of Tyne Dock, near South Shields, County Durham. He enlisted for service with ‘Dragoons of the Line’ at Newcastle on 22 August 1893, a blacksmith by trade, and was posted to the 5th Dragoon Guards. He transferred to the 7th Dragoon Guards on 31 December 1897. He served in South Africa from 25 August 1899 to 27 January 1901, and was promoted to Corporal Shoeing Smith on 29 May 1901.

Sold with copied discharge papers and medal roll extracts.