Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Gunner W. H. Boyce, “Q” Battery, Royal Horse Artillery

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901 (51309 Gnr: W. H. Boyce, Q, B, R.H.A.); Coronation 1911, unnamed as issued, very fine (2) £280-£320

William Henry Boyce was born in Bedford and attested for the Royal Artillery at Newcastle-on-Tyne on 4 November 1885. He served overseas in India from October 1886 to November 1890, and in South Africa with “U” Battery R.H.A. from 21 December 1899, where he transferred to “Q” Battery on 7 April 1900, for the remainder of the war in South Africa. He was discharged from “Q” Battery ‘medically unfit’ on 2 March 1912, having been awarded the L.S. & G.C. medal on 1 July 1910, and the 1911 Coronation medal. Sold with copied discharge papers and medal roll extracts.