Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Company Quarter Master Sergeant A. Hepburn, Imperial Yeomanry, later Royal Engineers

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (No. 3127 Corpl. A. Hepburn. 14th Co. Imp. Yeo.) naming unofficially re-engraved; 1914-15 Star (81404. C.Q.M. Sjt. A. Hepburn, R.E.) the first re-engraved, nearly very fine (2) £50-£70

Alexander Hepburn served in South Africa with the 14th (Northumberland) Company, 5th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry, and later with the 120th (Younghusband’s Horse) Company, 26th Battalion I.Y. He was slightly wounded at Wolmaranstadt on 14 February 1901. He served in France with the Royal Engineers from 8 November 1915, and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Army Service Corps on 18 August 1917. Sold with copied discharge papers and medal roll extracts.