Queen's South Africa Medal - Royal West Kent Mounted Infantry - Wounded - Archer

QSA (Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902) named to: 5595 PTE. G. ARCHER. R. W. KENT. R.M.I:

George Archer was born in London, England in 1882. He enlisted in the Royal West Kent Regiment at Maidstone on 6 September, 1899. He served in Egypt from December 1899 to March 1900, returning home for a few months before proceeding to South Africa in May 1901. He was severely wounded (accidentally) on 25 October 1901 at Klerksdorp. He then proceeded to Ceylon, servig there from November 1902 until November 1904. Following Ceylon, he was posted to Tientsin, China between Novermber 1904 and January 1907. Transferring to the reserves in Shanghai, remained in China, working for the Shanghai Gas Company. He rejoined his regiment with service number 6005 and served on the Western Front, being wounded in the ankle and thigh in July, 1916. He also served in the Chinese Labour Corps as a Corporal. Archer retuned to China in 1919, presumably to rejoin his family who continued to reside there. He arrived in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada on 1 September 1924 - his wife and son followed a month later. George Archer died of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, contracted in China, on 26 November 1923 and is buried in Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria, BC laid to rest buried beneath a Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery headstone.

Sold with a very comprehensive photocopied research file documenting much of his life.