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

Pair: Quarter-Master Sergeant F. G. Johnson, (Leicestershire) Imperial Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (23074 Q.M. Sjt., 7th Coy. Imp. Yeo.); Yorkshire Imperial Yeomanry 1900-1902, 3rd Battalion, South Africa 1901-1902 (23074 F. G. Johnson), the first with officially corrected number and rank, edge bruising, very fine or better (2) £140-160

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. 7 (Leicester) Company, 4th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry.

Francis Greenwood Johnson was born in Leeds, Yorkshire and enlisted in the Imperial Yeomanry in January 1901, aged 22 years. He subsequently served in South Africa from February of the latter year until August 1902 and was discharged in the rank of Quarter-Master Sergeant soon after his return to the U.K.