Queens South Africa Medal to a Recipient Who Served with the Leeds Company Volunteer Medical Staff Corps, medal with 3 clasp, Cape Colony, Wittebergen and South Africa 1901, impressed naming, ‘13378 PTE. W.E. SPEIGHT R.A.M.C.’, ghost dates visible on reverse of medal. illiam Ewart Speight was a 20-year-old Analyst from Leeds when he attested for service in the Royal Army Medical Corps on 26th February 1900. He served for 1 year and 285 days before his discharge on 7th December 1901. The medal and all 3 clasps are confirmed on the medals rolls for the Leeds Company Volunteer Medical Staff Corps, he served with 21st Field Hospital and No.10 General Hospital. On his return to the UK, he resumed his analyst work and is shown as being a chemist at a sewerage works on both the 1911 Census and the 1939 Register.