Pte Walter Dorman, 102nd Company, 5th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry, 1902 (c).

Studio portrait photograph taken by C Norris, Smethwick, 1902 (c)

The subject is shown here in uniform, wearing the King’s South Africa Medal with five clasps, awarded to those who had served in South Africa during the Boer War.

Walter Dorman had been ‘wounded severely’ on 21 January 1902.

One of thirteen photographs collected by Pte Walter Dorman, 102nd (Worcestershire) Coy, Imperial Yeomanry during the Boer War, 1901-1902, in civilian life and as a member of the Home Guard during World War Two (1939-1945).