Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Trooper H. Thornton, Imperial Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (30086 Tpr: H. Thornton. 9th. Coy. Imp: Yeo:); Yorkshire Imperial Yeomanry Medal 1900-1902, 3rd Battalion, South Africa 1901-1902 (30086 Pte. H. Thornton.) edge bruise to second, very fine and better (2) £300-£400

Harry Thornton was born at Coldhill, Leeds, in 1876. A cab driver, he attested at Doncaster for the Imperial Yeomanry, serving in South Africa with the 9th (Yorkshire Hussars) Company, 3rd Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, from 16 March 1901 to 10 November 1901. A single man, he was discharged medically unfit on 11 December 1901 and likely returned home to his father’s grand property at 35, Hanover Square, Leeds.