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QSA KSA 6 Bars Scots Guards

Queen’s South Africa, 6 “Battle Bars”, King’s South Africa, 2 bars, SA 1901, SA 1902, 2259 Private Alfred Yeo, 1st Bn Scots Guards, a classic 6 battle bar entitlement to the Guards Brigade.

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Origin: United Kingdom
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Queen’s South Africa, 6 “Battle Bars”, King’s South Africa, 2 bars, SA 1901, SA 1902, 2259 Private Alfred Yeo, 1st Bn Scots Guards, a classic 6 battle bar entitlement to the Guards Brigade. 

 

QSA officially impressed: “2259 Pte A. Yeo, Scots Gds:” Large early style impressing with visible “Ghost dates”

KSA officially impressed: “2259 Pte A. Yeo. Scots Guards”

 

Confirmed on medal rolls.

Both medals in well preserved excellent condition, the recipient being discharged to the Army Reserve after the war.

 

With copy service records.

 

Home, 26th July 1898 – 20th October 1899

South Africa, 21st October 1899 – 21st July 1902

Home, 22nd July 1902 – 25th July 1910.

 

Alfred Yeo was born in Exmouth Devon, on 12th April 1874.

Son of George Henry Yeo, a Sailor and later Coast Guard Man.

Mother Mary Ann Jane (Knowlson), 6 Apollo St Everton, Liverpool

Elder Brother, George Henry, 31 Rocksburg St, Walton, Liverpool.

 

Alfred was a Devon man by birth, his family was from Devon and moved to West Derby, Liverpool when he was a young child about 1876.

 

As a 23 year old Labourer (worked as an Engine Cleaner in 1891) he enlisted into the Scots Guards on 26th July 1898 at Liverpool.

 

Joining the 1st Battalion Scots Guards he was part of the Guards Brigade that arrived early into the war for active service and fought in many battles in the early stages of the war earn an enviable collection of clasps.

 

Following his return home in July 1902, he joined the 3rd Battalion on 22nd July 1902, and joined the Army Reserve on 1st August 1902 to finish out his 12 years terms of engagement.

 

Alfred returned back to Liverpool, in 1921 he was later recorded as an Engine Cleaner with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railways working at Tithebarn Railway Station. (now known as the “Exchange Station Building”.

 

He died in Liverpool on 24th October 1922.

He was buried in the family grave in Kirkdale Cemetery with the quote “Till The Day Dawn”