Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (26670 L. Cpl. J. Fraser, 29th Coy Imp: Yeo:) very fine £100-£140

John Fraser was born in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, and attested for the Denbigh Imperial Yeomanry at Wrexham on 12 July 1901, at the age of 32, giving his trade as ‘Traveller’. His stated address on enlistment was 46 Oxton Road, Birkenhead. He spent some time attached to the 1st Provisional Company, Imperial Yeomanry. He was discharged at Shornecliffe, having been found medically unfit for further service on 18 November 1901, and according to his service papers died shortly thereafter.