Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private G. T. Peel, Imperial Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (632 Pte. G. T. Peel. 9th. Coy. Imp: Yeo:); Yorkshire Imperial Yeomanry Medal 1900-1902, 3rd Battalion, South Africa 1900-1901 (632 J. [sic] Peel) minor edge bruising, good very fine (2) £300-£400

George Taylor Peel was born in Barnsley in 1875. A shoeing smith, he attested at Doncaster for the Imperial Yeomanry on 22 March 1900, serving 189 days in South Africa with the 9th (Yorkshire Hussars) Company, 3rd Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry. According to the recipient’s Army Service Record, he witnessed action at Virginia Siding - likely when British forces attempted to force their way across the Vet River in May 1900 - before being discharged at his own request on 17 January 1901.