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Sold on 27 September 2016

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The Collection of Medals to Welsh Regiments formed by the Late Llewellyn Lord

Llewellyn Williams Lord, Jr

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27 September 2016

Hammer Price:
£130

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (31228 Q.M. Serjt. G. E. Powell, 89th Coy. Imp. Yeo.), nearly very fine and toned £100-120

George Edward Powell enlisted in the Imperial Yeomanry in February 1901, direct from the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry Cavalry. Posted to the 89th Company as a Quarter-Master Sergeant, he witnessed active service in South Africa, where his unit was detached from the 9th (Welsh) Battalion to form with the Bechuanaland Mounted Infantry and 4th Bedford Mounted Infantry, the 1st Divisional Scouting Corps. Powell was discharged back home in August 1902; sold with copied research.