Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private P. J. Pyters, Prince of Wales’s Own Cape Peninsula Rifles, later Duke of Edinburgh’s Own Volunteer Rifles

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (398 Pte. P. J. Pyters. D. of E. own V.R.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Pte. P. J. Pyters. 2nd S.A.I. Bgde.); Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal, G.V.R. (No.4072 Pte. P. J. Pyters. 9th Infy. (P.W.O.R.C.P.R.) edge bruising to first, nearly very fine and better (4) £180-£220

Peter John Pyters enlisted in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Own Volunteer Rifles on 10 February 1896 and served with them during the Boer War. Transferring to the 2nd Infantry on 1 July 1913, he was posted to the 2nd Brigade Reinforcements on 27 April 1916, and served during the Great War in German East Africa. He transferred to the Prince of Wales’s Own Cape Peninsula Rifles (9th Infantry) on 5 March 1917, and was discharged on 19 July 1918, after 20 years and 6 months’ service.

Sold with copied record of service.