A 2-bar Queen’s South Africa Medal & WW1 Medal Group to Joseph Burgess, Younghusbands Horse & Kings Shropshire Light Infantry- wounded at Arras in WW1.
Joseph served as :
- 37748 Trooper 27th Btn Imperial Yeomanry (Younghusbands Horse) during the Boer War
- 24561 Pte 7th Btn King's Shropshire Light Infantry during WW1 until 1917
He received a gunshot wound to the knee and was admitted to 5 General Hospital Rouen on 12th April.
- 364120 Army Service Corps from 29th Sept 1917 after his wounding.
The group consists of
- Queen's South Africa Medal with Cape Colony and South Africa 1902 clasps
- WW1 War Medal
- WW1 Victory Medal
All with their original Silk ribbons
Supplied with many pages of research materials from both his Boer War and WW1 service, including some photocopied photos, War Diary entries for the period of the battle in which he was wounded and a photocopied map of the troop formations involved in the battle
