2nd Battalion f Coy South African War and 5th Mounted Infantry – 2nd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment awarded Queens South Africa Medal Clasps Witterbergen Cape Colony and Transvaal – Awarded group 1 1st class Certificate of Education 25 March 1907 – 2nd Battalion B Coy October 1907 Classified Marksman – 2nd Battalion Granted 1st Class Certificate of Education 24 September 1907 – 2nd Battalion Appointed Company accountant of B Coy 01 December 1907 – 2nd Battalion to attend course in Musketry 01 March 1908 – B Coy 2nd Battalion Classified Marksman 14 February 1913 – Commissioned into the Cheshire Regiment 17 November 1914 – Photo January 1908 – Write up Snapper 1922 page 194