Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Acting Colour Sergeant B. Wallis, Volunteer Company, Hampshire Regiment, later Labour Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (350 Serjt: B. Wallis. Vol: Coy. Hants: Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (282103 A.C. Sjt. B. Wallis. Labour Corps.) mounted court-style, nearly extremely fine (3) £100-£140

Benjamin Wallis was born at Kingsclere, Berkshire, and was an apprenticed engineer with London and South West Railway when he attested for the Hampshire Regiment at Winchester on 18 February 1902, aged 25 years 7 months. He was promoted from Private to Sergeant on the same day in view of his previous service in the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment and served in South Africa with the 3rd Volunteer Active Service Battalion from 8 March to 31 July 1902. He was discharged on 30 August 1902, having signed up for 1 year or for the duration of the War in South Africa. During the Great War he served in the Labour Corps as an Acting Colour Sergeant and qualified for the British War and Victory Medals. Sold with copied attestation papers, medal roll extracts and Medal Index Card.