Queens South Africa Medal clasps Orange Free State, South Africa 1901 (ORDERLY J. WHEATLEY. IMP. HOSP. CORPS.)
John Wheatley was born in 1869 and was a Shopkeeper in Kroonstad in the Orange Free State when he married Elizabeth McAlpine Hunter in Durban on 27 October 1897.
Just prior to the start of the Anglo Boer War he was living in Vryheid where his son, John David Patrick Wheatley was born in 1899. At that time Vryheid was part of the Boer Republic of the Transvaal.
A naturalised Burgher, he would have been eligible for conscription into the Boer Commandos but opted to flee across the border to Natal where he enlisted with the Imperial Hospital Corps for service on 3 May 1901.
Post-war he worked as a Wool Broker departing to live in England on 26 October 1908. He passed away in Surrey on 25 March 1935.
His son later went on to play tennis at Wimbledon in the 1920's and represented England in the Davis Cup and the Olympic Games of 1924.
Medal is in good condition unless indicated otherwise. Sold with some research.
