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Auction: 21103 - Orders, Decorations and Medals e-Auction 4
Lot: 52

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (29285 Pte. T. Syria. 107th Coy. Imp: Yeo:), very fine

Thomas Syria was born at Bygar, Lanarkshire in 1881 and was a shoemaker upon joining the Imperial Yeomanry on 19 February 1901. He served with the 107th (Lanarkshire) Company, 6th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry during the Boer War. Captured at Palmietfontein Hill on 13 November 1901, Gazetteer refers:

'On 13, November 1901 Lt-Col WB Hickie based at the farm Brakspruit (2) sent out a force of about 95 officers and men from the 103rd and 107th companies Imperial Yeomanry commanded by Major Haughton, IY to reconnoitre the hill in search of the enemy. Three miles from the hill Major Haughton sent four troops under Captain Woolf to occupy the hill while he remained behind with 1 and a half troops. Captain Woolf signalled back that there was a party of mounted men under a hill two miles to the right. As Major Haughton tried to identify these men he was attacked from the right rear by a large party of 300 Boers. They held the Boers off for 1 and a half hours before surrendering, elements of Captain Woolf's party were also captured. British losses were five men killed, four mortally wounded, 14 wounded and 70 captured.'

In this action, the Boers lost 4 killed and 8 wounded.

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