Five: Major H. R. H. Crawford, Hampshire Yeomanry, attached Nigeria Regiment and Gold Coast...

Five: Major H. R. H. Crawford, Hampshire Yeomanry, attached Nigeria Regiment and Gold Coast Regiment, late Imperial Yeomanry Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between SA01 and SA02 clasps (11232 Tpr: H. Crawford. 61st. Coy. 17th. Impl: Yeo:); 1914-15 Star (Capt. H. H. Crawford. Hamps. Yeo); British War and Victory Medals (Major H. H. Crawford); Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., silver and silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1921, with integral top riband bar, mounted court-style as worn, nearly extremely fine, the 1914-15 Star extremely rare to unit (5) £1,000-£1,400 --- One of only three 1914-15 Stars awarded to an Officer in the Hampshire Carabiniers Yeomanry. Hedley Reginald Henry Crawford was born in Dublin in 1880 and attested for the Imperial Yeomanry on 1 February 1900. He served with the 61st (South Irish Horse) Company, 17th Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War from 4 April 1900 to 18 May 1901, and was discharged on 18 June 1901, after 1 years and 138 days’ service. He re-attested for the Imperial Yeomanry at Curragh on 8 February 1902, and, given the presence of the South Africa 1902 clasp on his QSA, saw further service during the Boer War, although this, and the entitlement to the clasp, are unconfirmed. Crawford was commissioned into the Hampshire Carabiniers Yeomanry, and served during the Great War on attachment first to the Nigeria Regiment, and then with the Gold Coast Regiment, West Africa Frontier Force, in the Cameroons, Nigeria, and East Africa from 22 September 1914. Transferring to the Retied List with the rank of Major, he was awarded his Territorial Decoration in 1923 (London Gazette 9 October 1923). Sold with copied research.