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Auction: 4014 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 184

Three: Major C.H. Simpson, Yorkshire Dragoons, Imperial Yeomanry Queen's South Africa, three clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut. C.H. Simpson. 11/Co. 3/. Imp. Yeo.); Territorial Decoration E.VII.R. (Hallmarks for London 1909), with top suspension bar missing; Coronation 1902, silver, mounted as worn, very fine or better; Imperial Yorkshire Yeomanry Medal for South Africa (Lieut C.H. Simpson), in Spink, London, damaged case (4) Estimate £ 340-380 Major Cecil Harold Simpson, (1868-1941), educated at Eton; Lieutenant, served with 11th Company 3rd Battalion Imperial Yeomanry 27.1.1900-02, South Africa, operations in Cape Colony, north of Orange River, including action at Ruidam, operations in Orange River Colony, and at Lindley, June 1900; advanced to Major, Yorkshire Dragoons, Imperial Yeomanry 1901, invalided home; served during the Great War as Honorary Lieutenant Colonel Late Territorial Force, Major Territorial Force Reserve.

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