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Five: Sergeant Master Tailor W. R. Syer, Hampshire Regiment, late Royal Sussex Regiment and Indian Ordnance Department India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1887-89 (121 Sub-Condt. W. R. Syer, Indian Ord.) unit officially corrected; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen, last clasp a tailor’s copy (5558 Sgt. W. R. Syer, 1st. Rl. Sussex Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5558 Serjt: W. R. Syer. Rl: Sussex Regt.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (7557 Sjt: Tlr. W. R. Syer. Hants: Regt.); Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (7557 Sjt. W. R. Syer. Hamps. R.) contact marks, polished and worn, therefore fine, the MSM good very fine (5) £300-£400 --- William Robert Syer was born in Stowmarket, Suffolk, in 1868 and having served with the Indian Ordnance Department attested for the Liverpool Regiment at Shorncliffe on 11 August 1891. He transferred to the Royal Sussex Regiment as Sergeant Master Tailor on 9 April 1898, and served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War from 20 February 1900 to 15 May 1902. He transferred to the Hampshire Regiment in the same appointment on 31 August 1905, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal per Army Order 73 of April 1910, He was discharged due to sickness on 26 February 1917, after 25 years and 200 days’ service, having served throughout the Great War at home, and was awarded a Silver War Badge. He was awarded his Meritorious Service Medal per Army Order 103 of 1945. Sold with copied research.
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Five: Sergeant Master Tailor W. R. Syer, Hampshire Regiment, late Royal Sussex Regiment and Indian Ordnance Department India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1887-89 (121 Sub-Condt. W. R. Syer, Indian Ord.) unit officially corrected; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen, last clasp a tailor’s copy (5558 Sgt. W. R. Syer, 1st. Rl. Sussex Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5558 Serjt: W. R. Syer. Rl: Sussex Regt.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (7557 Sjt: Tlr. W. R. Syer. Hants: Regt.); Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (7557 Sjt. W. R. Syer. Hamps. R.) contact marks, polished and worn, therefore fine, the MSM good very fine (5) £300-£400 --- William Robert Syer was born in Stowmarket, Suffolk, in 1868 and having served with the Indian Ordnance Department attested for the Liverpool Regiment at Shorncliffe on 11 August 1891. He transferred to the Royal Sussex Regiment as Sergeant Master Tailor on 9 April 1898, and served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War from 20 February 1900 to 15 May 1902. He transferred to the Hampshire Regiment in the same appointment on 31 August 1905, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal per Army Order 73 of April 1910, He was discharged due to sickness on 26 February 1917, after 25 years and 200 days’ service, having served throughout the Great War at home, and was awarded a Silver War Badge. He was awarded his Meritorious Service Medal per Army Order 103 of 1945. Sold with copied research.
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