Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private J. Laing, Imperial Yeomanry, later Northumberland Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, date clasp block loose on riband (30880. Pte. J. Laing. 14th Coy. Imp: Yeo:); 1914 Star, with later slide clasp (768 Pte. J. Laing. North’d Yeo.); British War and Victory Medals (768 Pte. J. Laing. North’d Yeo.) nearly very fine (4) £300-£400

James Laing served with the 14th (Northumberland) Company, 5th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry during the Boer War in South Africa, and with the Northumberland Yeomanry (Hussars) during the Great War on the Western Front from 5 October 1914. He subsequently transferred to the Army Service Corps on 11 July 1915.