Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4760 Tpr: S Parsons, 50th. Coy. 17th. Impl: Yeo:) good very fine £400-£500

Approximately 85 ‘Rhodesia’ clasps awarded to the Hampshire Yeomanry.

Sidney Parsons was born in Southampton in 1877 and attested for the Imperial Yeomanry at Winchester on 9 January 1900. He served with the 50th (Hampshire) Company, 17th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Boer War from 7 April 1900 to 16 June 1901, and was wounded at Sunnyside, near Boshof, on 28 March 1901. He was discharged on 22 June 1901, after 1 year and 165 days’ service, but subsequently re-enlisted in the 26th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, and returned to South Africa, qualifying for the ‘South Africa 1902’ clasp.

Sold with copied service papers and medal roll extracts, which confirm clasp entitlement.