Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3241 Pte. A. Sills. Oxford: L. I.) very fine £50-£70

Albert Sills, a Labourer from Amersham, Buckinghamshire, was born around June 1873. He attested for the Royal Fusiliers in London on 27 August 1895 and transferred to the Oxfordshire Light Infantry on 3 November 1899. He was embodied and joined the Militia Reserve in January 1900 and served during the Second Boer War in South Africa with the 1st Battalion. Also awarded a Queen’s South Africa Medal with the clasps Cape Colony and Orange Free State, he was discharged around 1903.

Sold with copy service record.