Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Driver G. Wilkinson, Royal Field Artillery

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (757 Dvr: G. Wilkinson. R.F.A.); Tibet 1903-04, no clasp (757 Dvr. G. Wilkinson 74th By. R.F.A.) edge bruising, otherwise good very fine (2) £400-£500

George Wilkinson was born in the Parish of Patricroft, Lancaster, and enlisted into the Royal Artillery at Bury on 22 August 1899, aged 23, a groom by trade. He served in South Africa from 9 November 1901 to 22 October 1902, and in India and Tibet from 23 October 1902 to 8 November 1907. He transferred to the Army Reserve on 12 November 1907.

Sold with copied discharge papers which confirm Queen’s medal with 5 clasps and Tibet 1903-04 medal.