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

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Orange Free State (Capt. R. B. Muir, 17/Impl. Yeo.) good very fine £300-350

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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No. 65 (Leicester) Company, 17th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry.

Robert Bunten Muir was born in Glasgow in July 1862 and was educated at Cheltenham College. Appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the Leicestershire Yeomanry in January 1890, he was advanced to Captain on the eve of the Boer War. He subsequently served in South Africa for 13 months in No. 65 (Leicester) Company, 17th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, and was awarded the above described Medal and clasps (accompanying verification refers). During the Great War Muir attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the 2/1st Leicestershire Yeomanry, was mentioned in despatches and awarded the O.B.E. (London Gazette 3 June 1919). For many years resident at Kirby Hall, Melton Mowbray, he was a keen huntsman and a J.P. He died in March 1937.