Queens South Africa Medal. Williams. South Wales Borderers. Ghost dated.

Correctly named 7521 Pte L Williams S Wales Bord

The medal has a modern replacement ribbon.

Traces of ghost dating.

He served with the 3rd Battalion and the clasps are confirmed on rolls and is entitled to a Kings South Africa Medal.

The 3rd Battalion of the South Wales Borderers is a direct descendant of the 3rd (Monmouthshire) Volunteer Battalion of the South Wales Borderers, which saw its first South African service in the Second Boer War (1900–02).

Under the Childers Reforms of 1881, the South Wales Borderers became the single line regiment of the Border Counties, with the 3rd Battalion originally the Royal South Wales Borderers Militia (Royal Radnor and Brecknock Rifles).
Volunteer battalions such as the 3rd Monmouthshire Rifle Volunteers were later reorganised into the 4th Volunteer Battalion South Wales Borderers in 1885, and in 1908 became the 3rd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment (Territorial Force).

During the Boer War, the 3rd Battalion (then the 4th Volunteer Battalion) supplied many volunteers who fought in South Africa. This service earned the battalion its first Battle Honour: “South Africa 1900–02”.
The volunteers’ contributions were recognised by the Lord Haldane Reforms of 1908, which merged militia, yeomanry and volunteers into the Territorial Force, making the 4th Volunteer Battalion the 3rd Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment (TF).

The 3rd Monmouthshire Regiment continued to serve with distinction, notably in World War I in France and Belgium, where it suffered heavily at the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915, losing 703 officers and other ranks killed or wounded.
The battalion was later re‑formed in the Territorial Army (TA) and in the 1930s adopted the title 3rd (Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire) Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment (TA)