Pair: Sergeant W. H. Broxton, Shropshire Yeomanry, late 88th (Welsh Yeomanry) Company, Imperial Yeomanry
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, clasp carriage broken between first and second clasps, with top four clasp block loose on riband (26931 Tpr. W. H. Broxton. 88th. Coy. Imp: Yeo:); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (533 Sjt: W. H. Broxton. Shrops: Yeo:)
Condition edge bruising, polished and worn, good fine
William Hamlet Broxton, a grocer, was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, in 1879, and enlisted in the Imperial Yeomanry at Ruabon on 4 February 1901. He served in South Africa from 6 April 1901 to 27 August 1902 with the 88th Company, Imperial Yeomanry, comprising men of the 2nd Montgomeryshire Contingent. Discharged upon termination of engagement 3 September 1902, he returned home to ‘Chapel House, Pontesbury, Shropshire’. Broxton was later awarded the T.F.E.M. under Army Order No. 8 of 1 January 1914.
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