British Boer War Medal Pair 2nd Battalion East Kent Regiment, consisting of 3 clasp Queens South Africa medal, impressed naming ‘1833 PTE. W. PALMER, EAST KENT REGT’ with clasps, Cape colony, Orange Free State and Transvaal. Kings South Africa medal, impressed naming, ‘1833 PTE. W. PALMER, EAST KENT REGT’ with 2 clasps, South Africa 1901 and South Africa 1902. Medals and clasps confirmed on the rolls. 39 year old William Palmer weas discharged at Canterbury on 11th June 1906 having completed 21 years’ service. His service record shows his intended place to live as being Cardiff Road, Portsmouth. He served in the 2nd Battalion East Kent Regiment during the Boer War and his service record does not show any other medal entitlement. He reattested on 14th April 1915 for service in the Great War and served in France for 6 months between November 1916 and April 1917 and was discharged as unfit for further military service on 26th October 1917.