Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private W. E. Roberts, 3rd Dragoon Guards, later South Lancashire Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3662 Pte W. E. Roberts, 3rd Dgn: Gds:) last two clasps loose on riband as issued; British War and Victory Medals (32116 Pte. W. E. Roberts. S. Lan. R.) nearly extremely fine (3) £120-£160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from an Africa Collection.

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William ‘Bill’ Roberts was born in London, and resided in Wandsworth. In between service during the Boer War and the Great War, Roberts was employed at Young’s Brewery, Wandsworth. He is believed to have been invalided out of service due to frostbite (entitled to Silver War Badge), and returned to employment at the brewery. Roberts died in 1953.

Sold with copied research.