An Interesting WW1 2/1 Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons, British South Africa Police & 2/2 King's Africa Rifles Officer's Medal Pair to Captain Leonard Campbell Vernon (1614)
An Interesting WW1 2/1 Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons, British South Africa Police & 2/2 King's Africa Rifles Officer's Medal Pair to Captain Leonard Campbell Vernon (1614)
An Interesting WW1 2/1 Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons, British South Africa Police, & 2/2 King's Africa Rifles Officer's medal pair awarded to Captain Leonard Campbell Vernon.
Leonard Campbell Vernon was born on the 30th July 1885, at Hammersmith, London. He was educated at Rossall School and his father was Reverand James Campbell Vernon, the vicar of Maltby.
Prior to the outbreak of the Great War, Leonard spent nine and a half years in Southern Africa, where he served for 5 years with the British South Africa Police in Rhodesia, worked as a civil servant with the British South Africa Company, and also the West African Frontier Force.
Leonard returned to England when war broke out in 1914 and was commissioned into the Queen’s Own Yorkshire Dragoons, where he served with the 2/1 & 9th battalions. On the 20th of February 1918 he was seconded to the 2/2 Battalion, King’s Africa Rifles, where he served through to March 1919.
The medals are mounted as worn on original ribbons, sold with a good file of copied research (including 24 pages of his Officer’s Record of Service), and are as follows -
British War & Victory Medals, LIEUT. L. C. VERNON.
Condition, very fine
Captain Vernon is not entitled to a 1914/15 Star