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I thought I would breath some new life into this topic with some of my own collection relating to Yeomanry serving in 10th Battalion - Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. The commander was Lord Chesham and you see a magazine article confirming the "X" in rosette for 10th.





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The slouch hat is not mine as it sold for a very pretty sum. I have settled for the rosette - which took me 10 years to find.
Wayne




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Wayne,

This photograph of 8031 Private Sir Arthur Spencer Wells, 40th (Oxfordshire) Company, 10 Bn. I.Y., shows the “XIY” badges being worn as collars. Note that he is wearing a standard General Service rosette (lacking the "IY") rather than one of the more familiar "X" examples. The reverse of the portrait is inscribed "Jan 1900", so possibly taken before the "X" rosettes had been issued.

Sir Arthur Spencer Wells, 2nd Baronet of Upper Grosvenor Street, was born in 1866, the son of Sir Thomas Wells, 1st Baronet, Surgeon to H.M. Queen Victoria and President of the Royal College of Surgeons, and his wife Elizabeth, and was educated at Wellington College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He served as private secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt. Hon. Sir William Harcourt, M.P., from 1893-95, and unsuccessfully contested the Gloucester City seat at the 1895 General Election. He served in the Boer War with the 40th (Oxfordshire) Company, 10th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry.
Sir Arthur Wells succeeded to the Baronetcy upon the death of his father on 31 January 1897. He never married, and died on 31 March 1906, heirless.

Two-clasp QSA sold through Dix Noonan Webb, 8 Dec 2016.

















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