Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Yorkshire Imperial Yeomanry Medal 1900-1902, 3rd Battalion, South Africa 1901-1902 (26772 Pte. F. W. Dronfield.) contact marks, very fine £200-£240

Frederick William Dronfield was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, in 1880 and attested for the Imperial Yeomanry at Doncaster on 15 February 1901, having previously served in the York and Lancaster Regiment. He served with the 9th (Yorkshire Hussars) Company, 3rd Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Boer War from 13 March 1901 to 5 January 1902 (entitled to a Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasps for Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, and South Africa 1901), and was discharged, medically unfit, on 22 February 1902, after 1 year and 8 days’ service.

Sold with copied service papers.