Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part III)

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (Capt. R. H. Radford, Leic. Rgt.) good very fine £200-250

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Leicester Regiment and Yeomanry formed by the late Trevor Harris.

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An officer of the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment during his brief posting to Cape Colony in April-May 1902, Radford does not appear to have seen further active service, but rather remained employed in the same Battalion in the U.K. during the Great War, in the rank of Major. In April 1917, he transferred to the 11th (Service) Battalion, also known as the Midland Pioneers’ Battalion.