Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Rhodesia 1896, no clasp (2871 Pte. G. T. Lindley 2/Y & Lancr. Regt.) edge bruising and scratches to obverse field, nearly very fine £300-£400

George Thomas Lindley was born in Thorne, near Doncaster, Yorkshire, in 1871 and attested for the York and Lancaster Regiment at Pontefract, Yorkshire, on 25 November 1890. He served with the 2nd Battalion in South Africa and Rhodesia from 14 May 1892 to 13 February 1897, and then in India from 14 February 1897 to 28 December 1898. He transferred to the Reserve on 31 December 1898, but was recalled to the Colours on 13 November 1899, and served in South Africa during the Boer War from 13 December 1899 to 30 August 1902 (entitled to the Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasps for Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, and Laing’s Nek; and the King’s South Africa Medal with 2 clasps). He was finally discharged on 24 November 1902, after 12 years’ service.

Sold with copied service papers and medal roll extracts.