Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Orderly J. Clarkson, Imperial Yeomanry Hospital Staff, later Private, Army Service Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Orderly J. Clarkson. I.Y. H.P. Staff.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (1784 Tpr: J. Clarkson. S.A.C.) top lugs neatly removed; 1914-15 Star (SS-4900 Pte. J. Clarkson, A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (SS-4900 Pte. J. Clarkson. A.S.C.) generally very fine (5) £160-£200

Dix & Webb, June 1996.

James Clarkson served in the Hospital Ship Roslin Castle during the Boer War, and subsequently with the Army Service Corps during the Great War on the Western Front from 4 December 1914 to 16 May 1916. He was discharged on 18 August 1916, being no longer physically fit for war service, suffering from debility and varicose veins.