Queens South Africa Medal clasps Orange Free State, South Africa 1901 (ORDERLY J. WHEATLEY. IMP. HOSP. CORPS.)
John Wheatley was born in 1869 and, at the time the Anglo Boer War broke out in 1899, was a Shopkeeper in Kroonstad in the Orange Free State. A naturalised Burgher, he would have been eligible for conscription into the Boer Commandos but opted to flee to Natal where he enlisted with the Imperial Hospital Corps for service on 3 May 1901.
He had married a Durban woman, Elizabeth McAlpine Hunter in Durban on 27 October 1897.
Post-war he continued as a Wool Broker departing to live in England on 26 October 1908. He passed away in Surrey on 25 March 1935.
Medal is in good condition unless indicated otherwise. Sold with some research.
