Lot 1034
A BOER WAR/GREAT WAR GROUP OF SIX TO WILLIAM HARRISON OF THE LEICESTERS.
A group of six comprising a 1902 Coronation Medal, Queens South Africa Medal with Laing's Nek, Belfast and South Africa 1902 clasps, named to Capt W.A. Harrison Leics Regt. 1914-15 Star to Lt Col Harrison, War and Victory medals and a George V Territorial Decoration hallmarked for London 1912. Mounted as worn with the Coronation medal first. Sold with medal boxes and envelope addressed Miss B.L. Harrison and an accompanying letter dated 1921 suggesting that Lieutenant colonel had not made it through the war alive. Indeed William Harrison did not make it through the war alive having surrendered his commission due to ill health on the 5th February 1916. Having commanded a Volunteer Company of the Leicestershire Regiment in the Boer war from the 24th of March 1900 as a Captain, he received his Territorial Award on 17th December 1912. At the outbreak of the First World War he was appointed Commanding Officer of the 1/4th Battalion. He entered France on the 2nd March 1915 but his poor health saw that his war was a short one. He moved to South Africa succumbing to tuberculosis in July of 1917.
