Description
Queen’s South Africa Medal, 2 bars, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902, 5326 Private J.E. Scott, 4th Militia Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment.
Officially impressed: “5326 Pte J.E. Scott. Yorkshire Regt”
Confirmed on the medal roll, one recording earning the medal, initially intended without clasps.
The second roll, noting issue of the Cape Colony and South Africa 1902 dated clasp.
During the Boer War, the 4th Militia Battalion of the West Yorks was embodied during December 1899 and 500 Officers and Men left for South Africa in February 1900.
