Description
Queen’s South Africa Medal, 2 bars, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, 6244 Private Samuel Pye, 1st Bn Yorkshire Regiment. Died at Kronstad on 19th May 1901.
Officially impressed: “6244 Pte S. Pye. Yorkshire Regt”
Confirmed on the medal roll, excellent condition due to the posthumous issue of the medal.
The medal roll lists him as being part of a number of 1st Battalion men attached to 3rd Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment.
Samuel Pye had been born in Ormesby, Norfolk, and worked as a Waiter before he attested for service on 30th January 1900.
He died during his service in South Africa at Kroonstad on 19th May 1901, cause of death being Tubercle of Lung.
His pension and war gratuity was paid to his father John.
Samuel Pye, was born in August 1868 in Ormesby St Margaret, Norfolk.
He was baptised there on 23rd August 1868, the son of John and Margaret Pye.
The massive family had moved over from Norfolk to Yorkshire in the late 1870s, where they settled near Scarborough, an ideal place for his father John who was a Fisherman.
1891 Census lists Samuel as a “Hotel Porter” living in Scarborough, Yorkshire.
There was no sign of his father at the time (He appears to have been a Fisherman and was likely at Sea) but living at the home was his mother Margaret with Samuel alongside his 4 sisters and 3 brothers.
