Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (4748 R.S. Major G. Miles. 50th. Coy. 17th. Impl: Yeo:) polished, edge bruise, very fine £300-£400

George Miles was born in Milford, near Lymington, Hampshire, in 1866, and attested for the Imperial Yeomanry at Portsmouth on 8 January 1900, having previously served in the Hampshire Carabineers. He served with the 50th (Hampshire) Company, 17th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Boer War from 7 April 1900 to 9 June 1901, was advanced Regimental Sergeant Major on 8 February 1901, and was Mentioned in Lord Roberts’ Despatch (London Gazette 10 September 1901). He was demobilised on 15 June 1901, but remained in the Imperial Yeomanry, and was awarded his Imperial Yeomanry Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 1 February 1906.

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