Served: Ermelo. Junior.
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Jordaan, Gerrit Jacobus . Sers - by: djb
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Hattingh, Dewald Jacobus. Burger - by: djb
Served: Hoogeveld.
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Glendon, Michael. Veldkornet - by: djb
Served: General Lemmer.
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With the Imperial Light Infantry and Kitchener's Fighting Scouts - A Laing - by: Rory
Alexander Laing
Private, Imperial Light Infantry
Corporal, 1st Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts – Anglo Boer War
- Queens South Africa Medal with clasps Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal and Laings Nek to 277 Pte. A. Laing, Impl. Lt. Infy.
- Kings South Africa Medal with clasps South Africa 190 & 1902 to 406 Cpl. A. Laing, Kitchener’s F.S.
Alex Laing was born in Stirling, Scotland on 20 July 1866 the son of Alexander Laing, a House Joiner by trade, and his wife Rachel, born Paterson.
According to the 1871 Scotland census the Laing family were living at 81 Baker Street in Sterling. Aside from his parents a 4 year old Alexander was joined by siblings William (13), Mary (12), Elizabeth (9) and younger brother Robert (a baby of less than a year old)
Ten years later at the time of the 1881 Scotland census the family had moved to Raploch in Sterling. The older children had flown the coop leaving a 14 year old Alexander, now employed as a Telegraph Messenger, in the house with Elizabeth (19), Robert (10) and a whole host of newcomers in the forms of Charles (7), James (6), Rachel (3) and David (1). No-one could have accused Mrs Laing of being a layabout – she was too busy having children!
At some point after this Alexander, as did so many young men in Victorian times, decided to leave home in search of a better life for themselves. In his case he took himself off to South Africa which, towards the end of the 19th century, held several attractions for those with an adventurous disposition – for those keen on making a fortune there were the gold mines of Johannesburg and the diamond mines of Kimberley, for others there was the possibility of making a go of farming in either the Cape Colony or Natal – certainly a land of many opportunities.
But all was not well on the political front – long simmering tensions between the two Boer Republics of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal and Great Britain came to the boil in October 1899 leading to an ultimatum which, the British Government having chosen to ignore it, led to a declaration of war on 11 October. The Boers went on the offensive and quickly invested major towns to the west and south east of their borders. The number of Imperial troops stationed in South Africa at that point proved to be woefully inadequate to counter or even contain the threat and an urgent call went out for the creation and mobilisation of colonial units to aid in the war.
The Imperial Light Infantry (the foot version of the Imperial Light Horse) was one such unit. Raised in Natal it comprised, mostly, recruits from those who had lost their employment on the Witwatersrand after the outbreak of hostilities and had ventured south to Durban.
Laing elected to join their ranks and attested at Durban on 20 November 1899. Assigned to “E” Company with no. 277 and the rank of Private he was one of the first to join. His attestation papers confirmed that he was 36 years of age, was 5 feet 9 inches in height, weighed 168 pounds and had a fair complexion, brown - grey eyes and dark brown hair. He wore a size 7 boot.
The command of the Imperial Light Infantry was given to Lieutenant Colonel Nash of the Border Regiment and by the end of December 1899 the regiment was ready for active service. They saw comparatively little training and no fighting until they were thrown into the awful combat on Spioen Kop on 24th January 1900. About 1000 strong, they paraded at 10 pm on 23rd January, and, as ordered, took up positions from which they could reinforce General Woodgate, who commanded the force detailed to capture the hill.
Sir Charles Warren visited the regiment early on the morning of the 24th, and asked the officers if they had seen anything of a mountain-battery which he was expecting. They had not. He requested that 2 companies be sent forward to a specified point to be ready to escort the battery to the summit. The companies of Captains Champney and Smith moved out at 6 am and waited as ordered for the battery, but about 9 am a staff-officer told them to reinforce immediately on the summit. The 2 companies advanced and reached the top shortly after 10 am. At this hour the enemy's fire was appalling, the hail of bullets and shells being ceaseless, but these untried volunteers are said to have pushed up to the shallow trench and the firing-line beyond it without flinching. They at once commenced to suffer very severe losses. These 2 companies were the first reinforcements to enter the firing-line, and their arrival proved most opportune, some Lancashire companies being very hard pressed at this time and at this part of the position.
About mid-day Colonel Nash was ordered to reinforce on the summit with "every available man". About 2 pm he reached the top with his remaining companies, who at once bolted out from the rocks at the head of the ascent and fed the firing-line, pushing forward fearlessly across the open.
Throughout the afternoon and evening the firing was unceasing, and often at very close quarters; after dark it had died away. The regiment having been collected, fell in and marched off. They had barely gone 200 yards, however, when an officer said to Colonel Nash, "Where are you going?" The latter replied that he had been ordered to take down the regiment. The other officer then said, "I am Colonel Hill of the Middlesex; not a man or regiment is to leave the hill". The officers of the Imperial Light Infantry then said to their men that a mistake had been made, and the column 'about turned', marched back to the place they had come from, put out pickets, and lay down among the dead and wounded. The worst feature of this very trying experience was the ceaseless crying of the wounded for water: there was none on the hill. During the night a staff-officer informed Colonel Nash that he had better bring down his men before dawn if no fresh troops or orders came up. Between 3 am and 4 am the regiment was again collected and finally left the hill. No Boers had ventured on to the hill up to that time.
This was the world Laing found himself in on that fateful day and night. The losses of the Imperial Light Infantry, as published at the time, were: killed—2 officers, Lieutenants Rudall and Kynoch-Shand, and 29 non-commissioned officers and men; wounded—3 officers, Captain Coleman, Lieutenants H R Brown and Richards, and 110 non-commissioned officers and men; missing—19 men. Most of the latter were afterwards found to have been killed or wounded.
From there it was on to Ladysmith as part of the relief and then on to Laings Nek (no relative we assume) and the Transvaal which, it must be remembered, at that time was just on the other side of Utrecht, close by to Newcastle and not the border as we now know it. The campaign in Natal effectively over with the Boers pushed back across their own border most of the colonially-raised troops were stood down and sent home thus denying them the opportunity for the eighteen months active service required to earn the Kings South Africa Medal.
Such was not the lot of Mr Laing. Having taken his discharge from the I.L.I. on 16 November 1900 he looked around for another regiment to join. He found one in the 1st Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts with whom he enlisted at Durban on 24 December 1900 assigned no. 406 and the rank of Corporal.
Now 38 years of age his hair had softened to a light brown (no doubt on account of the bleaching effect of the African sun). His next of kin he provided as his brother, William Laing of Cradock in the Cape Colony. (One wonders whether or not William was the reason Alex had come out to South Africa.) He also provided his parents address as Berwick on Tweed, Berwick, Scotland and his occupation as that of Clerk.
Laing was to serve two stints with the 1st K.F.S. – the first was from 24 December 1900 until 21 June 1901 when he took his discharge in Pretoria; and the second was from 27 June 1901 until his final discharge on 21 June 1902 in Johannesburg. There was nothing unusual about this – oftentimes men were only enlisted for a maximum of 6 months before having to re-attest. In his case he re-attested for 6 months initially and then for a full 12 months after that.
The corps was raised in December 1900, being recruited in Cape Colony and Natal so Laing was one of the first to enlist. As soon as they could be mounted they were sent into the field. Stirling’s Colonials in South Africa was heavily relied upon to provide detailed information of what exactly the 1st K.F.S. got up to. As can be seen from what follows, Laing and his comrades had a particularly busy war.
"Lieutenant Colonel Grenfell, whose regiment, KFS, had been sent by rail to Pietersburg, was, therefore, directed to clear up the situation. Starting on the night of the 26th April 1901, Lieutenant Colonel Grenfell discovered the enemy's laager at Klipdam, and attacked it at dawn on the 27th with complete success, with the loss of only one man wounded. Seven Boers were killed. Information having been obtained that the enemy's last Long Tom was at Berg Plaats, about 20 miles east of Pietersburg, on the road to Haenertsburg, I desired Colonel Grenfell to make every effort to capture the gun.
He moved at once, and at daylight on the 30th occupied Doornhoek, thence pushing on to Berg Plaats. On his approach the enemy opened fire at over 10,000 yards' range, but after 16 rounds they blew up the gun, while Colonel Grenfell's men were still about 3000 yards distant, and retreated in a north east direction.
As the result of a careful search on the farm, Berg Vlei, adjoining Berg Plaats, 100,000 rounds of Martini-Henry ammunition were discovered and destroyed. With Berg Vlei as a centre Colonel Grenfell continued to operate for several days with success, and a detachment of the 12th Battalion MI, under Major Thomson, was able, under cover of a thick fog, to effect the capture of Commandant Marais and 40 of his men."
In May Grenfell commanded an expedition to Louis Trichardt, 100 miles north-east of Pietersburg. His force was 600 men of KFS, the 12th MI Regulars, 2 guns, and four companies of the Wiltshire Regiment. The column left Pietersburg, and two days later Colenbrander with the advanced force occupied Louis Trichardt. About the 20th Colenbrander, by a well-planned night march, surprised a laager on the Klip Spruit. Field-Cornet Venter with 72 Burghers, 68 rifles, 18 waggons", and a large amount of ammunition and many cattle, were captured.
On the 25th May Grenfell received the surrender of Commandant Van Rensburg and about 150 men. Shortly after this Colenbrander, in the Buffels district, had some skirmishes, "killing seven and capturing a maxim. A detachment under Major Knott overtook a commando under Barend Viljoen and captured 79 prisoners". Lord Kitchener said, in his despatch of 8th July 1901, that this expedition did much to secure the pacification of the Northern Transvaal.
On 1st July, at Hopewell, Grenfell surprised another laager, killing 1 and capturing 93 prisoners, 100 horses, much stock and ammunition.
During August and September 1901 many other expeditions were undertaken by the corps, but the results of these were meagre compared to the splendid successes previously obtained, and to those obtained in October, November, and December. In the despatch of 8th November Lord Kitchener said:
"In the Northern Transvaal Colonel Colenbrander, KFS, has traversed the Water Berg between Warmbaths and Magalapye on the Rhodesian Railway, a district hitherto unvisited by our troops". Leaving Warmbaths on 6th October, Colenbrander visited many "Boer supply depots, carefully located beforehand, and during the march captured 45 prisoners of war, 67 rifles, nearly 4000 rounds of ammunition, and a very large number of waggons and cattle".
In the despatch of 8th December 1901 Lord Kitchener said that Colenbrander, on his return march to Warmbaths, captured 54 prisoners and much stock. On the 27th 200 of KFS pushed out through the Zand River Poort. The enemy retreated; for two days "the pursuit was not relaxed, and on the 29th Colonel Colenbrander, with half of KFS, pressed on ahead of the remainder of the column upon Badenhorst's traces, and following them closely till the morning of 3rd December, Colonel Colenbrander, after a long and exhausting chase through an almost waterless region, came suddenly upon the enemy and captured 15 prisoners, with all the waggons of the commando".
On the 26th Colenbrander set out for Rustenburg, arriving there on 1st January 1902. "A skilful march through Magato Nek on the night of 4th January enabled him to capture a laager and 29 prisoners after an engagement at dawn, in which 5 of the enemy were killed". In his telegram regarding this affair, Lord Kitchener said: "This surprise was highly creditable to Colonel Colenbrander, who with a very small force effected it within a few miles of a superior force of the enemy".
On this occasion there was one casualty. Lord Kitchener also mentioned in his despatch of 8th January 1902 that Colenbrander on 9th January came upon the native chief Linchwe and 2000 of his people searching for stock stolen by the Boer leader General Kemp. "Colenbrander directed the chief to return to the Pilandsberg, which order he obeyed forthwith, much to the relief of the families scattered throughout the district".
Colenbrander, with the 1st KFS, continued to operate in the Western Transvaal during January, February, and part of March 1902. In the despatch of 8th February 1902 Lord Kitchener remarked that "in the Northern Transvaal operations at any distance from the railway have necessarily been temporarily suspended by the season of horse-sickness.
The departure of Colonel Colenbrander's column for the south for this reason appears to have given General Beyers breathing-time, and sufficient leisure for the initiation of a plan which aimed at an attack on Pietersburg in conjunction with the simultaneous removal of a number of Burghers who had been residing voluntarily and as neutrals in the refugee camp at that place". The removal of some of the latter was effected, but otherwise the attack was repulsed, the Town Guard supporting the troops with great steadiness.
In the despatch of 8th April it is stated that Beyers moved from Malips Poort, southeast of Pietersburg, about 13th March, and invested Fort Edward, a small fortified post near Louis Trichardt. A column of 200 mounted men and 300 of the Northampton Regiment moved out to relieve the place, but was opposed, and on 24th March fell back. Colenbrander's column, 1st KFS, was therefore brought up from Krugersdorp. On the 27th he moved out from Pietersburg. On the 28th "he undertook a long night march from Dwars River, which terminated at daybreak on the 29th in the complete surprise of the enemy, who fled in an easterly direction, with the loss of 3 killed and 4 captured". This is a notable instance of irregulars succeeding brilliantly where regulars failed.
A portion of the 1st KFS were with Colonel Keir's column, which, along with Colonel Cookson's column, was heavily attacked at Boschbult, 31st March 1902. The detachment of KFS had 1 man killed and 8 wounded.
In his final despatch, that of 1st June 1902, para 3, Lord Kitchener said that "in the Northern Transvaal Lieutenant Colonel Colenbrander has carried out some successful operations against General Beyers, who, on 5th April, was in camp on the southern slopes of the hills close to Malips Poort".
Colenbrander, who had returned from the relief of Fort Edward on the 5th, aimed at the surrounding of the enemy. "Two parties of 400 men each were sent out on the 6th under General Celliers, National Scouts, and Captain M'Queen, Steinaecker's Horse, to block the two roads open to the Boers to the south-east and south-west.
A third party under Captain Lyle, 1st KFS, moved on the night of the 6th along the top of the hills to the west of the Poort to block all possible exits in that direction; whilst Colonel Colenbrander himself, with the 2nd Battalion Inniskilling Fusiliers and the remainder of his mounted men, left Pietersburg on the night of the 7th to make a direct attack on the Poort itself. The attack was delivered on the morning of the 8th, and after severe fighting extending over two days, in which, I regret to say, Lieutenant Colonel A J Murray, commanding 2nd Inniskilling Fusiliers, was dangerously wounded, resulted in the flight of the Boers in a south-easterly direction".
Unfortunately Captain M'Queen had failed "to reach the exact position assigned to him, and this enabled General Beyers and the majority of his followers to make good their escape towards Haenertsburg", but the Boers left their laager, waggons, and camp equipment. Nine were killed, 11 wounded, and 108 unwounded prisoners were takenOperations were suspended for a time during a stage of the peace negotiations, but between 5th and 10th May Colenbrander's force was able to account for 1 Boer killed, 21 wounded, and 101 armed prisoners. On 10th May hostilities in the district practically ceased.
Kitchener's Fighting Scouts took the field when the war was far advanced, but during the whole of the second phase of the campaign they did splendid work. Judged by the losses inflicted on the enemy, no corps could point to a finer record, and they are an outstanding example of what can be made in a very short time of Colonial material, provided that officers suitable for irregulars are found. A regular regiment can pull through a campaign although it has in its commissioned ranks a fair proportion of those not unknown types—the inconsiderate soldier and the finicking old maid whose idea of taking responsibility stops short at the enforcement among the rank and file of well-shaved chins and very clean equipment. In an irregular corps there is no place for such people, and their presence is a sure source of trouble and failure. Officers must be had with great tact and common-sense, not unduly magnifying their position, and fearless of all consequences when they act conscientiously on their own initiative.
Having been taken to Pretoria after the declaration of peace, Kitchener's Fighting Scouts had, along with the Imperial Light Horse, Johannesburg Mounted Rifles, and Scottish Horse, the honour of marching past Lord Kitchener, who spoke highly of the work which had been done.
For his not inconsiderable service Laing was awarded both the Queens and Kings Medals with the clasps commensurate with his service.
Alexander Laing returned to live in his native Scotland at some point before passing away at Langley House in Liberton, Edinburgh on 6 January 1932 at the age (provided) of 65. His occupation was given as Telegraphist, retired Civil Servant (he had worked for the Union government in South Africa). Cause of death was Nephritis and Heart Failure. He had married Augusta Marie Harrison IN Pietermaritzburg, Natal and the pair had two children Mrs Rachel Hendricks and A.P. Laing, B.Sc.
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Private, Imperial Light Infantry
Corporal, 1st Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts – Anglo Boer War
- Queens South Africa Medal with clasps Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal and Laings Nek to 277 Pte. A. Laing, Impl. Lt. Infy.
- Kings South Africa Medal with clasps South Africa 190 & 1902 to 406 Cpl. A. Laing, Kitchener’s F.S.
Alex Laing was born in Stirling, Scotland on 20 July 1866 the son of Alexander Laing, a House Joiner by trade, and his wife Rachel, born Paterson.
According to the 1871 Scotland census the Laing family were living at 81 Baker Street in Sterling. Aside from his parents a 4 year old Alexander was joined by siblings William (13), Mary (12), Elizabeth (9) and younger brother Robert (a baby of less than a year old)
Ten years later at the time of the 1881 Scotland census the family had moved to Raploch in Sterling. The older children had flown the coop leaving a 14 year old Alexander, now employed as a Telegraph Messenger, in the house with Elizabeth (19), Robert (10) and a whole host of newcomers in the forms of Charles (7), James (6), Rachel (3) and David (1). No-one could have accused Mrs Laing of being a layabout – she was too busy having children!
At some point after this Alexander, as did so many young men in Victorian times, decided to leave home in search of a better life for themselves. In his case he took himself off to South Africa which, towards the end of the 19th century, held several attractions for those with an adventurous disposition – for those keen on making a fortune there were the gold mines of Johannesburg and the diamond mines of Kimberley, for others there was the possibility of making a go of farming in either the Cape Colony or Natal – certainly a land of many opportunities.
But all was not well on the political front – long simmering tensions between the two Boer Republics of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal and Great Britain came to the boil in October 1899 leading to an ultimatum which, the British Government having chosen to ignore it, led to a declaration of war on 11 October. The Boers went on the offensive and quickly invested major towns to the west and south east of their borders. The number of Imperial troops stationed in South Africa at that point proved to be woefully inadequate to counter or even contain the threat and an urgent call went out for the creation and mobilisation of colonial units to aid in the war.
The Imperial Light Infantry (the foot version of the Imperial Light Horse) was one such unit. Raised in Natal it comprised, mostly, recruits from those who had lost their employment on the Witwatersrand after the outbreak of hostilities and had ventured south to Durban.
Laing elected to join their ranks and attested at Durban on 20 November 1899. Assigned to “E” Company with no. 277 and the rank of Private he was one of the first to join. His attestation papers confirmed that he was 36 years of age, was 5 feet 9 inches in height, weighed 168 pounds and had a fair complexion, brown - grey eyes and dark brown hair. He wore a size 7 boot.
The command of the Imperial Light Infantry was given to Lieutenant Colonel Nash of the Border Regiment and by the end of December 1899 the regiment was ready for active service. They saw comparatively little training and no fighting until they were thrown into the awful combat on Spioen Kop on 24th January 1900. About 1000 strong, they paraded at 10 pm on 23rd January, and, as ordered, took up positions from which they could reinforce General Woodgate, who commanded the force detailed to capture the hill.
Sir Charles Warren visited the regiment early on the morning of the 24th, and asked the officers if they had seen anything of a mountain-battery which he was expecting. They had not. He requested that 2 companies be sent forward to a specified point to be ready to escort the battery to the summit. The companies of Captains Champney and Smith moved out at 6 am and waited as ordered for the battery, but about 9 am a staff-officer told them to reinforce immediately on the summit. The 2 companies advanced and reached the top shortly after 10 am. At this hour the enemy's fire was appalling, the hail of bullets and shells being ceaseless, but these untried volunteers are said to have pushed up to the shallow trench and the firing-line beyond it without flinching. They at once commenced to suffer very severe losses. These 2 companies were the first reinforcements to enter the firing-line, and their arrival proved most opportune, some Lancashire companies being very hard pressed at this time and at this part of the position.
About mid-day Colonel Nash was ordered to reinforce on the summit with "every available man". About 2 pm he reached the top with his remaining companies, who at once bolted out from the rocks at the head of the ascent and fed the firing-line, pushing forward fearlessly across the open.
Throughout the afternoon and evening the firing was unceasing, and often at very close quarters; after dark it had died away. The regiment having been collected, fell in and marched off. They had barely gone 200 yards, however, when an officer said to Colonel Nash, "Where are you going?" The latter replied that he had been ordered to take down the regiment. The other officer then said, "I am Colonel Hill of the Middlesex; not a man or regiment is to leave the hill". The officers of the Imperial Light Infantry then said to their men that a mistake had been made, and the column 'about turned', marched back to the place they had come from, put out pickets, and lay down among the dead and wounded. The worst feature of this very trying experience was the ceaseless crying of the wounded for water: there was none on the hill. During the night a staff-officer informed Colonel Nash that he had better bring down his men before dawn if no fresh troops or orders came up. Between 3 am and 4 am the regiment was again collected and finally left the hill. No Boers had ventured on to the hill up to that time.
This was the world Laing found himself in on that fateful day and night. The losses of the Imperial Light Infantry, as published at the time, were: killed—2 officers, Lieutenants Rudall and Kynoch-Shand, and 29 non-commissioned officers and men; wounded—3 officers, Captain Coleman, Lieutenants H R Brown and Richards, and 110 non-commissioned officers and men; missing—19 men. Most of the latter were afterwards found to have been killed or wounded.
From there it was on to Ladysmith as part of the relief and then on to Laings Nek (no relative we assume) and the Transvaal which, it must be remembered, at that time was just on the other side of Utrecht, close by to Newcastle and not the border as we now know it. The campaign in Natal effectively over with the Boers pushed back across their own border most of the colonially-raised troops were stood down and sent home thus denying them the opportunity for the eighteen months active service required to earn the Kings South Africa Medal.
Such was not the lot of Mr Laing. Having taken his discharge from the I.L.I. on 16 November 1900 he looked around for another regiment to join. He found one in the 1st Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts with whom he enlisted at Durban on 24 December 1900 assigned no. 406 and the rank of Corporal.
Now 38 years of age his hair had softened to a light brown (no doubt on account of the bleaching effect of the African sun). His next of kin he provided as his brother, William Laing of Cradock in the Cape Colony. (One wonders whether or not William was the reason Alex had come out to South Africa.) He also provided his parents address as Berwick on Tweed, Berwick, Scotland and his occupation as that of Clerk.
Laing was to serve two stints with the 1st K.F.S. – the first was from 24 December 1900 until 21 June 1901 when he took his discharge in Pretoria; and the second was from 27 June 1901 until his final discharge on 21 June 1902 in Johannesburg. There was nothing unusual about this – oftentimes men were only enlisted for a maximum of 6 months before having to re-attest. In his case he re-attested for 6 months initially and then for a full 12 months after that.
The corps was raised in December 1900, being recruited in Cape Colony and Natal so Laing was one of the first to enlist. As soon as they could be mounted they were sent into the field. Stirling’s Colonials in South Africa was heavily relied upon to provide detailed information of what exactly the 1st K.F.S. got up to. As can be seen from what follows, Laing and his comrades had a particularly busy war.
"Lieutenant Colonel Grenfell, whose regiment, KFS, had been sent by rail to Pietersburg, was, therefore, directed to clear up the situation. Starting on the night of the 26th April 1901, Lieutenant Colonel Grenfell discovered the enemy's laager at Klipdam, and attacked it at dawn on the 27th with complete success, with the loss of only one man wounded. Seven Boers were killed. Information having been obtained that the enemy's last Long Tom was at Berg Plaats, about 20 miles east of Pietersburg, on the road to Haenertsburg, I desired Colonel Grenfell to make every effort to capture the gun.
He moved at once, and at daylight on the 30th occupied Doornhoek, thence pushing on to Berg Plaats. On his approach the enemy opened fire at over 10,000 yards' range, but after 16 rounds they blew up the gun, while Colonel Grenfell's men were still about 3000 yards distant, and retreated in a north east direction.
As the result of a careful search on the farm, Berg Vlei, adjoining Berg Plaats, 100,000 rounds of Martini-Henry ammunition were discovered and destroyed. With Berg Vlei as a centre Colonel Grenfell continued to operate for several days with success, and a detachment of the 12th Battalion MI, under Major Thomson, was able, under cover of a thick fog, to effect the capture of Commandant Marais and 40 of his men."
In May Grenfell commanded an expedition to Louis Trichardt, 100 miles north-east of Pietersburg. His force was 600 men of KFS, the 12th MI Regulars, 2 guns, and four companies of the Wiltshire Regiment. The column left Pietersburg, and two days later Colenbrander with the advanced force occupied Louis Trichardt. About the 20th Colenbrander, by a well-planned night march, surprised a laager on the Klip Spruit. Field-Cornet Venter with 72 Burghers, 68 rifles, 18 waggons", and a large amount of ammunition and many cattle, were captured.
On the 25th May Grenfell received the surrender of Commandant Van Rensburg and about 150 men. Shortly after this Colenbrander, in the Buffels district, had some skirmishes, "killing seven and capturing a maxim. A detachment under Major Knott overtook a commando under Barend Viljoen and captured 79 prisoners". Lord Kitchener said, in his despatch of 8th July 1901, that this expedition did much to secure the pacification of the Northern Transvaal.
On 1st July, at Hopewell, Grenfell surprised another laager, killing 1 and capturing 93 prisoners, 100 horses, much stock and ammunition.
During August and September 1901 many other expeditions were undertaken by the corps, but the results of these were meagre compared to the splendid successes previously obtained, and to those obtained in October, November, and December. In the despatch of 8th November Lord Kitchener said:
"In the Northern Transvaal Colonel Colenbrander, KFS, has traversed the Water Berg between Warmbaths and Magalapye on the Rhodesian Railway, a district hitherto unvisited by our troops". Leaving Warmbaths on 6th October, Colenbrander visited many "Boer supply depots, carefully located beforehand, and during the march captured 45 prisoners of war, 67 rifles, nearly 4000 rounds of ammunition, and a very large number of waggons and cattle".
In the despatch of 8th December 1901 Lord Kitchener said that Colenbrander, on his return march to Warmbaths, captured 54 prisoners and much stock. On the 27th 200 of KFS pushed out through the Zand River Poort. The enemy retreated; for two days "the pursuit was not relaxed, and on the 29th Colonel Colenbrander, with half of KFS, pressed on ahead of the remainder of the column upon Badenhorst's traces, and following them closely till the morning of 3rd December, Colonel Colenbrander, after a long and exhausting chase through an almost waterless region, came suddenly upon the enemy and captured 15 prisoners, with all the waggons of the commando".
On the 26th Colenbrander set out for Rustenburg, arriving there on 1st January 1902. "A skilful march through Magato Nek on the night of 4th January enabled him to capture a laager and 29 prisoners after an engagement at dawn, in which 5 of the enemy were killed". In his telegram regarding this affair, Lord Kitchener said: "This surprise was highly creditable to Colonel Colenbrander, who with a very small force effected it within a few miles of a superior force of the enemy".
On this occasion there was one casualty. Lord Kitchener also mentioned in his despatch of 8th January 1902 that Colenbrander on 9th January came upon the native chief Linchwe and 2000 of his people searching for stock stolen by the Boer leader General Kemp. "Colenbrander directed the chief to return to the Pilandsberg, which order he obeyed forthwith, much to the relief of the families scattered throughout the district".
Colenbrander, with the 1st KFS, continued to operate in the Western Transvaal during January, February, and part of March 1902. In the despatch of 8th February 1902 Lord Kitchener remarked that "in the Northern Transvaal operations at any distance from the railway have necessarily been temporarily suspended by the season of horse-sickness.
The departure of Colonel Colenbrander's column for the south for this reason appears to have given General Beyers breathing-time, and sufficient leisure for the initiation of a plan which aimed at an attack on Pietersburg in conjunction with the simultaneous removal of a number of Burghers who had been residing voluntarily and as neutrals in the refugee camp at that place". The removal of some of the latter was effected, but otherwise the attack was repulsed, the Town Guard supporting the troops with great steadiness.
In the despatch of 8th April it is stated that Beyers moved from Malips Poort, southeast of Pietersburg, about 13th March, and invested Fort Edward, a small fortified post near Louis Trichardt. A column of 200 mounted men and 300 of the Northampton Regiment moved out to relieve the place, but was opposed, and on 24th March fell back. Colenbrander's column, 1st KFS, was therefore brought up from Krugersdorp. On the 27th he moved out from Pietersburg. On the 28th "he undertook a long night march from Dwars River, which terminated at daybreak on the 29th in the complete surprise of the enemy, who fled in an easterly direction, with the loss of 3 killed and 4 captured". This is a notable instance of irregulars succeeding brilliantly where regulars failed.
A portion of the 1st KFS were with Colonel Keir's column, which, along with Colonel Cookson's column, was heavily attacked at Boschbult, 31st March 1902. The detachment of KFS had 1 man killed and 8 wounded.
In his final despatch, that of 1st June 1902, para 3, Lord Kitchener said that "in the Northern Transvaal Lieutenant Colonel Colenbrander has carried out some successful operations against General Beyers, who, on 5th April, was in camp on the southern slopes of the hills close to Malips Poort".
Colenbrander, who had returned from the relief of Fort Edward on the 5th, aimed at the surrounding of the enemy. "Two parties of 400 men each were sent out on the 6th under General Celliers, National Scouts, and Captain M'Queen, Steinaecker's Horse, to block the two roads open to the Boers to the south-east and south-west.
A third party under Captain Lyle, 1st KFS, moved on the night of the 6th along the top of the hills to the west of the Poort to block all possible exits in that direction; whilst Colonel Colenbrander himself, with the 2nd Battalion Inniskilling Fusiliers and the remainder of his mounted men, left Pietersburg on the night of the 7th to make a direct attack on the Poort itself. The attack was delivered on the morning of the 8th, and after severe fighting extending over two days, in which, I regret to say, Lieutenant Colonel A J Murray, commanding 2nd Inniskilling Fusiliers, was dangerously wounded, resulted in the flight of the Boers in a south-easterly direction".
Unfortunately Captain M'Queen had failed "to reach the exact position assigned to him, and this enabled General Beyers and the majority of his followers to make good their escape towards Haenertsburg", but the Boers left their laager, waggons, and camp equipment. Nine were killed, 11 wounded, and 108 unwounded prisoners were takenOperations were suspended for a time during a stage of the peace negotiations, but between 5th and 10th May Colenbrander's force was able to account for 1 Boer killed, 21 wounded, and 101 armed prisoners. On 10th May hostilities in the district practically ceased.
Kitchener's Fighting Scouts took the field when the war was far advanced, but during the whole of the second phase of the campaign they did splendid work. Judged by the losses inflicted on the enemy, no corps could point to a finer record, and they are an outstanding example of what can be made in a very short time of Colonial material, provided that officers suitable for irregulars are found. A regular regiment can pull through a campaign although it has in its commissioned ranks a fair proportion of those not unknown types—the inconsiderate soldier and the finicking old maid whose idea of taking responsibility stops short at the enforcement among the rank and file of well-shaved chins and very clean equipment. In an irregular corps there is no place for such people, and their presence is a sure source of trouble and failure. Officers must be had with great tact and common-sense, not unduly magnifying their position, and fearless of all consequences when they act conscientiously on their own initiative.
Having been taken to Pretoria after the declaration of peace, Kitchener's Fighting Scouts had, along with the Imperial Light Horse, Johannesburg Mounted Rifles, and Scottish Horse, the honour of marching past Lord Kitchener, who spoke highly of the work which had been done.
For his not inconsiderable service Laing was awarded both the Queens and Kings Medals with the clasps commensurate with his service.
Alexander Laing returned to live in his native Scotland at some point before passing away at Langley House in Liberton, Edinburgh on 6 January 1932 at the age (provided) of 65. His occupation was given as Telegraphist, retired Civil Servant (he had worked for the Union government in South Africa). Cause of death was Nephritis and Heart Failure. He had married Augusta Marie Harrison IN Pietermaritzburg, Natal and the pair had two children Mrs Rachel Hendricks and A.P. Laing, B.Sc.
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Medals to the 3rd Dragoon Guards - by: djb
Picture courtesy of Warwick & Warwick
QSA (5) CC OFS Tr SA01 SA02 (Major H. Mercer 3/Drgn Gds,)
BWM (Bt Col H. Mercer)
1897 Diamond Jubilee Medal un-named as issued,
Herbert Mercer was commissioned in Edinburgh Artillery Militia 6/4/81, transferred as Lieut from 3rd Bde Scottish Div RA to 3rd Drgn Gds 30/1/84, promoted Capt 8/4/90, Maj 3/4/97, Lt Col 2/7/04 and Bt Col 2/7/07. He served in South African operations in Transvaal May & Jul 1901, ORC Feb 1901 to 31/5/02, Zululand Frontier Sep-Oct 1901.
He was born in Maidstone, commanded Regt 1905-07, WW1 served Reserve of Cavalry attached to Staff, landed France 9/8/15 but only issued a BWM, served in Northern Ireland as Security Officer, became Unionist MP for Sudbury 1922-23, died in 1942 aged 82
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Boer Bibles taken as trophies - by: nigelr
During the war significant numbers of Boer bibles were looted by imperial troops from Boer homes and shipped back to the soldiers' home countries. I have located records from the press and from official papers documenting cases of New Zealand troopers bringng bibles back to New Zealand. Some were displayed in museums while at least one was displayed in the window of a pawn shop. The bibles were of great importance to the Boers as they often contained hand written family records dating back for generations.
Following the war, a request by Lord Roberts seeking the return of these bibles was published in the press and in the New Zealand Gazette. A number of bibles were handed in to the Government, which then arranged for their repatriation to their rightful owners in South Africa. In some cases, this did not occur until several decades after the war had ended. I have primary documents relating to the return of several bibles belonging to the following individuals:
1. A bible belonging to an unnamed Boer magistrate at Arundel. The bible was covered in black silk and recorded the births of Anna Margaritha Adriana in 1877 and Margaritha Isabella J. Van Rensberg in 1878
2. A bible belonging to J.A. Van Antwerpen of Bospoord in Lichtenburg District of Transvaal
3. A bible belonging to Peter Vanderberg of Boshop. The Bible contained Vanderberg’s will, a lock of hair bound with a blue ribbon, and several ‘pathetic little souvenirs’ including Christmas cards.
4. A bible belonging to Joachim Frederick Sarel Mentz of Ongegund farm in Heilbron district
5. A bible belonging to B. M. Janse Van Vuuren of Witport, Transvaal
I would be very interested in contacting surviving family members of these individuals as I suspect they might be unaware of the bibles' travels. If anyone knows their relatives please contact me at byzantine60@gmail.com
Cheers,
Nigel Robson
Regards,
Nigel Robson
Following the war, a request by Lord Roberts seeking the return of these bibles was published in the press and in the New Zealand Gazette. A number of bibles were handed in to the Government, which then arranged for their repatriation to their rightful owners in South Africa. In some cases, this did not occur until several decades after the war had ended. I have primary documents relating to the return of several bibles belonging to the following individuals:
1. A bible belonging to an unnamed Boer magistrate at Arundel. The bible was covered in black silk and recorded the births of Anna Margaritha Adriana in 1877 and Margaritha Isabella J. Van Rensberg in 1878
2. A bible belonging to J.A. Van Antwerpen of Bospoord in Lichtenburg District of Transvaal
3. A bible belonging to Peter Vanderberg of Boshop. The Bible contained Vanderberg’s will, a lock of hair bound with a blue ribbon, and several ‘pathetic little souvenirs’ including Christmas cards.
4. A bible belonging to Joachim Frederick Sarel Mentz of Ongegund farm in Heilbron district
5. A bible belonging to B. M. Janse Van Vuuren of Witport, Transvaal
I would be very interested in contacting surviving family members of these individuals as I suspect they might be unaware of the bibles' travels. If anyone knows their relatives please contact me at byzantine60@gmail.com
Cheers,
Nigel Robson
Regards,
Nigel Robson
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Bermondsey Roll of Honour, South London - by: BereniceUK
The roll of honour was originally in Bermondsey Town Hall, was put into storage in the 1960s, and later moved to where the Bermondsey and Southwark war memorial is, in the open air. In early 2014, it was installed in St James's Church, Bermondsey. The maker of the roll, as it originally was, was Reckbell & Son, Bermondsey S.E.
Two names were added after the August, 1903, photo had been taken - W. E. Morlidge and W. James - and three of those named died in South Africa.
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3RD V.B. "THE QUEENS" - C.I.V.
CAPT . W. H. BRAILEY.
CAPT . C. A. MORTIMORE.
SERGT . INST . G. C. TUNBRIDGE.
SERGT . G. A. SCARBOROUGH.
LANCE SERGT . W. H. SHAW.
CORPL . P. T. SMITH.
CORPL . F. C. ALTASS.
CORPL . W. J. HARRADINE.
CORPL . W. F. BURRETT.
CORPL . T. BOWLING.
CORPL . C. J. KING.
PRIVATE H. J. ALTON.
PRIVATE H. E. BEARMAN.
PRIVATE E. G. COODE.
PRIVATE F. H. EVERITT.
PRIVATE B. JONES.
PRIVATE F. NASH.
PRIVATE H. RAWLINGS.
PRIVATE J. WATERHOUSE.
PRIVATE P. H. WILLOUGHBY.
IMPERIAL YEOMANRY
CAPT . H. P. TRAVERS.
SERGT . F. CHUTER.
PRIVATE W. E. MACDONALD.
PRIVATE L. F. ADE.
PRIVATE E. JOBLIN.
PRIVATE A. STRINGER.
PRIVATE J. DENTON.
PRIVATE F. SKEGGS.
1ST SERVICE SECTION
SERGT . A. G. HILLIER.
CORPL . A. PODD.
CORPL . C. A. BIRD.
LANCE CORPL . W. A. FISHWICKE.
LANCE CORPL . C. JACOBS.
PRIVATE H. BANNISTER.
PRIVATE A. BATTMAN.
PRIVATE W. H. BALL.
PRIVATE W. E. CORREY.
PRIVATE J. H. CLARKE.
PRIVATE G. CLAY.
PRIVATE W. CROFT.
PRIVATE A. P. DAY.
PRIVATE J. H. DALE.
PRIVATE A. DAVIDSON.
PRIVATE H. FRANKS.
PRIVATE E. J. ELSEY.
PRIVATE J. W. GLAUM.
PRIVATE T. GAREMAN.
PRIVATE A. HEARNE.
PRIVATE T. LUNN.
PRIVATE W. G. MAY.
PRIVATE H. MILLAR.
PRIVATE E. W. PARKER.
PRIVATE W. PRITCHARD.
PRIVATE H. C. SIMPKINS.
PRIVATE A. SAWYER.
PRIVATE W. J. SPIERS.
PRIVATE A. WILLIAMS.
DRUMMER W. G. JONES.
2ND SERVICE SECTION
CAPT . F. J. SYMONDS.
SERGT . INST . J. BLACHIN.
SERGT . W. F. JONES.
PRIVATE A. F. BAXTER.
PRIVATE G. H. BRADY.
PRIVATE E. C. BRYANT.
PRIVATE G. W. BROWN.
PRIVATE A. E. BINDEN.
PRIVATE S. G. BLYTHE.
PRIVATE W. BISHOP.
PRIVATE W. J. COTTEN.
PRIVATE H. J. FAGAN.
PRIVATE W. H. GEATER.
PRIVATE H. C. HARPER.
PRIVATE J. HOWARD.
PRIVATE P.HOWARD.
PRIVATE W. HOWELL.
PRIVATE N. F. HUMPHRIES.
PRIVATE J. JARVIS.
PRIVATE B. JUDD.
PRIVATE A. H. JONES.
PRIVATE R. KENDRICK.
PRIVATE A. KENT.
PRIVATE S. E. MILLSON.
PRIVATE G. E. MUNDAY.
PRIVATE E. MOORE.
PRIVATE J. A. PRIGMORE.
PRIVATE J. H. PULLEY.
PRIVATE W. PITTS.
PRIVATE E. G. READ.
PRIVATE J. A. STONE.
PRIVATE A. W. STUCKFIELD.
PRIVATE F. T. THROWGOOD.
PRIVATE J. H. WATSON.
PRIVATE A. VOAK.
PRIVATE A. J. WOODS.
2ND V.B. ROYAL FUSILIERS
PRIVATE W. BAKER.
PRIVATE . W. FIELDING.
PRIVATE R. SELLWOOD.
PRIVATE W. E. MORLIDGE.
R.A.M.C.
LANCE CORPL . T. H. TOWNSEND.
PRIVATE H. BARRETT.
PRIVATE J. J. LAWRENCE.
PRIVATE W. LAW.
PRIVATE C. W. MEAD.
15TH MIDDLESEX V.R. CORPS
PRIVATE E. F. CHAPMAN.
SOUTH AFRICAN LIGHT HORSE
PRIVATE W. STERICKER.
2ND LONDON V.R. CORPS
SERGT . H. H. COOK (C.I.V.)
CORPL . G. R. WHITNEY.
22ND MIDDLESEX V. R. CORPS
LANCE SERGT . J. CHRISTIE.
PRIVATE H. LLOYD.
IMPERIAL YEOMANRY
CAPT . H. CURLEY. (67TH SQUADRON 18TH BATT )
SERGT . T. R. MORGAN.
SERGT . E. J. WATTS.
CORPL . H. C. COPPOCK.
PRIVATE T. J. JAMESON.
24TH MIDDLESEX (POST OFFICE) R.V.
PRIVATE P. CANEY.
PRIVATE A. P. GRABASKEY.
PRIVATE A. H. JONES.
PRIVATE E. O'HALLORAN.
PRIVATE J. A. LITTLE.
PRIVATE S. J. CARROLL.
PRIVATE H. J. PENNEY.
PRIVATE E. E. POCOCK.
METHUENS MOUNTED INFANTRY
PRIVATE V. E. BOYES.
JOHANNESBURG MOUNTED RIFLES
PRIVATE M. E.GREEN.
C.I.V.
PRIVATE A. J. RANTELL.
W. C. RANTELL.
2ND ROYAL WEST KENT
PRIVATE W. D. HOLLISS.
PRIVATE E.L. M. RUSBY, C.I.V., H.A.C.
PAGETS HORSE. SHARP SHOOTERS CORPS
PRIVATE W. SKANE.
2ND KENT VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY
PRIVATE H. T. HALLIWELL.
JULY, 1903 FREDK . RYALL , TOWN CLERK .
COLOR SERGT . W. JAMES. 24TH MIDDLESEX (POST OFFICE) R.V.
Two names were added after the August, 1903, photo had been taken - W. E. Morlidge and W. James - and three of those named died in South Africa.
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3RD V.B. "THE QUEENS" - C.I.V.
CAPT . W. H. BRAILEY.
CAPT . C. A. MORTIMORE.
SERGT . INST . G. C. TUNBRIDGE.
SERGT . G. A. SCARBOROUGH.
LANCE SERGT . W. H. SHAW.
CORPL . P. T. SMITH.
CORPL . F. C. ALTASS.
CORPL . W. J. HARRADINE.
CORPL . W. F. BURRETT.
CORPL . T. BOWLING.
CORPL . C. J. KING.
PRIVATE H. J. ALTON.
PRIVATE H. E. BEARMAN.
PRIVATE E. G. COODE.
PRIVATE F. H. EVERITT.
PRIVATE B. JONES.
PRIVATE F. NASH.
PRIVATE H. RAWLINGS.
PRIVATE J. WATERHOUSE.
PRIVATE P. H. WILLOUGHBY.
IMPERIAL YEOMANRY
CAPT . H. P. TRAVERS.
SERGT . F. CHUTER.
PRIVATE W. E. MACDONALD.
PRIVATE L. F. ADE.
PRIVATE E. JOBLIN.
PRIVATE A. STRINGER.
PRIVATE J. DENTON.
PRIVATE F. SKEGGS.
1ST SERVICE SECTION
SERGT . A. G. HILLIER.
CORPL . A. PODD.
CORPL . C. A. BIRD.
LANCE CORPL . W. A. FISHWICKE.
LANCE CORPL . C. JACOBS.
PRIVATE H. BANNISTER.
PRIVATE A. BATTMAN.
PRIVATE W. H. BALL.
PRIVATE W. E. CORREY.
PRIVATE J. H. CLARKE.
PRIVATE G. CLAY.
PRIVATE W. CROFT.
PRIVATE A. P. DAY.
PRIVATE J. H. DALE.
PRIVATE A. DAVIDSON.
PRIVATE H. FRANKS.
PRIVATE E. J. ELSEY.
PRIVATE J. W. GLAUM.
PRIVATE T. GAREMAN.
PRIVATE A. HEARNE.
PRIVATE T. LUNN.
PRIVATE W. G. MAY.
PRIVATE H. MILLAR.
PRIVATE E. W. PARKER.
PRIVATE W. PRITCHARD.
PRIVATE H. C. SIMPKINS.
PRIVATE A. SAWYER.
PRIVATE W. J. SPIERS.
PRIVATE A. WILLIAMS.
DRUMMER W. G. JONES.
2ND SERVICE SECTION
CAPT . F. J. SYMONDS.
SERGT . INST . J. BLACHIN.
SERGT . W. F. JONES.
PRIVATE A. F. BAXTER.
PRIVATE G. H. BRADY.
PRIVATE E. C. BRYANT.
PRIVATE G. W. BROWN.
PRIVATE A. E. BINDEN.
PRIVATE S. G. BLYTHE.
PRIVATE W. BISHOP.
PRIVATE W. J. COTTEN.
PRIVATE H. J. FAGAN.
PRIVATE W. H. GEATER.
PRIVATE H. C. HARPER.
PRIVATE J. HOWARD.
PRIVATE P.HOWARD.
PRIVATE W. HOWELL.
PRIVATE N. F. HUMPHRIES.
PRIVATE J. JARVIS.
PRIVATE B. JUDD.
PRIVATE A. H. JONES.
PRIVATE R. KENDRICK.
PRIVATE A. KENT.
PRIVATE S. E. MILLSON.
PRIVATE G. E. MUNDAY.
PRIVATE E. MOORE.
PRIVATE J. A. PRIGMORE.
PRIVATE J. H. PULLEY.
PRIVATE W. PITTS.
PRIVATE E. G. READ.
PRIVATE J. A. STONE.
PRIVATE A. W. STUCKFIELD.
PRIVATE F. T. THROWGOOD.
PRIVATE J. H. WATSON.
PRIVATE A. VOAK.
PRIVATE A. J. WOODS.
2ND V.B. ROYAL FUSILIERS
PRIVATE W. BAKER.
PRIVATE . W. FIELDING.
PRIVATE R. SELLWOOD.
PRIVATE W. E. MORLIDGE.
R.A.M.C.
LANCE CORPL . T. H. TOWNSEND.
PRIVATE H. BARRETT.
PRIVATE J. J. LAWRENCE.
PRIVATE W. LAW.
PRIVATE C. W. MEAD.
15TH MIDDLESEX V.R. CORPS
PRIVATE E. F. CHAPMAN.
SOUTH AFRICAN LIGHT HORSE
PRIVATE W. STERICKER.
2ND LONDON V.R. CORPS
SERGT . H. H. COOK (C.I.V.)
CORPL . G. R. WHITNEY.
22ND MIDDLESEX V. R. CORPS
LANCE SERGT . J. CHRISTIE.
PRIVATE H. LLOYD.
IMPERIAL YEOMANRY
CAPT . H. CURLEY. (67TH SQUADRON 18TH BATT )
SERGT . T. R. MORGAN.
SERGT . E. J. WATTS.
CORPL . H. C. COPPOCK.
PRIVATE T. J. JAMESON.
24TH MIDDLESEX (POST OFFICE) R.V.
PRIVATE P. CANEY.
PRIVATE A. P. GRABASKEY.
PRIVATE A. H. JONES.
PRIVATE E. O'HALLORAN.
PRIVATE J. A. LITTLE.
PRIVATE S. J. CARROLL.
PRIVATE H. J. PENNEY.
PRIVATE E. E. POCOCK.
METHUENS MOUNTED INFANTRY
PRIVATE V. E. BOYES.
JOHANNESBURG MOUNTED RIFLES
PRIVATE M. E.GREEN.
C.I.V.
PRIVATE A. J. RANTELL.
W. C. RANTELL.
2ND ROYAL WEST KENT
PRIVATE W. D. HOLLISS.
PRIVATE E.L. M. RUSBY, C.I.V., H.A.C.
PAGETS HORSE. SHARP SHOOTERS CORPS
PRIVATE W. SKANE.
2ND KENT VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY
PRIVATE H. T. HALLIWELL.
JULY, 1903 FREDK . RYALL , TOWN CLERK .
COLOR SERGT . W. JAMES. 24TH MIDDLESEX (POST OFFICE) R.V.
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Adding a missing page from the nominal roll for 1st Brabant's Horse - by: djb
In working through the nominal roll for 1st Brabant's Horse, I noticed that the first page of the Js was missing. This has been added in this morning.
www.angloboerwar.com/unit-information/so...abants-horse?start=1
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Notable sportsmen who saw service in South Africa - by: BereniceUK
All additions welcome!
Fred Goulding played Rugby Union for Gloucester, and had appeared in an England trial match, before seeing active service in South Africa with the Gloucestershire Regiment, 1900-1902.
www.gloucesterrugbyheritage.org.uk/page_...63.aspx?path=0p3p17p
Lieutenant Frank Milligan had played cricket for Yorkshire, and twice for England, and was killed in action at Ramathlabama, on 31st March 1900. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Milligan
Norman Biggs served as a private, rising to lieutenant, in the Glamorgan Yeomanry. He played Rugby Union football for Cardiff, and 8 times for Wales. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Biggs
Freddie Tait was a renowned amateur golfer, and won the Amateur Championship Trophy twice in the 1890s. As a lieutenant in the Black Watch he was killed in action on 7th February 1900. golfbible.co.uk/2016/01/10/lieutenant-f-g-tait/
Fred Goulding played Rugby Union for Gloucester, and had appeared in an England trial match, before seeing active service in South Africa with the Gloucestershire Regiment, 1900-1902.
www.gloucesterrugbyheritage.org.uk/page_...63.aspx?path=0p3p17p
Lieutenant Frank Milligan had played cricket for Yorkshire, and twice for England, and was killed in action at Ramathlabama, on 31st March 1900. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Milligan
Norman Biggs served as a private, rising to lieutenant, in the Glamorgan Yeomanry. He played Rugby Union football for Cardiff, and 8 times for Wales. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Biggs
Freddie Tait was a renowned amateur golfer, and won the Amateur Championship Trophy twice in the 1890s. As a lieutenant in the Black Watch he was killed in action on 7th February 1900. golfbible.co.uk/2016/01/10/lieutenant-f-g-tait/
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DNW auction - by: djb
884 lots to go under the hammer.
www.dnw.co.uk/auctions/catalogue/results.php?auction_id=343
Good luck if you are bidding![:)]( ":)")
I am watching but not bidding on lot 337, the no clasp QSA to Postmaster and Telegrapher H H Paris. Will be interesting.
Good luck if you are bidding
I am watching but not bidding on lot 337, the no clasp QSA to Postmaster and Telegrapher H H Paris. Will be interesting.
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Medals to the Gordon Highlanders - by: djb
Picture courtesy of DNW
IGS 1895 (3) 3 clasps, Relief of Chitral 1895, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (3593 Pte. R. Muir 1st Bn. Gord: Highrs.);
QSA (5) CC OFS Joh Belf 01 (3593 Pte. R. Muir, Gordon Highrs:)
Army Temperance Association Medal ‘India’ and Total Abstinance Medal ‘India’ with 2 clasps, Relief of Chitral 1895, Frontier 1897-8
Robert Muir enlisted on 2 December 1890. He gave his age as 19 years one month and was born in West Cranston, Cumberland. Prior to joining the Gordons he had belonged to the 3rd Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers. He served in India from February 1892 and returned at the end of October 1898. He rejoined the colours on mobilisation on 9th October 1899 and sailed with the first battalion to South Africa the following month. He returned home on 28 October 1901, and served for a further year before being discharged as time expired.
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Alcohol in the war - by: Ndlovu
I am conducting some research about all things alcohol in the war, does anyone have any interesting/ funny/ noteworthy "booze-related" stories from the war (like the "Whisky Train" for example).
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Repairing past damage - by: djb
I recently received back from Chris Dixon 4 QSAs that had suffered damage in the past. Chris's excellent work has been to restore the medals to their original condition, expunging the damage they suffered in the intervening time.
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Thomas W. Hodgkinson, 8th (Derbyshire) Coy I.Y. - died at sea, 1.6.1901 - by: BereniceUK
THE HOME-COMING DERBYSHIRE YEOMANRY.
DERBY TROOPER DANGEROUSLY ILL.
Mr. Thomas Hodgkinson, the well-known grocer, of Market-head, Derby, received on Saturday a telegram from the War Office stating that his son, Trooper T. W. Hodgkinson (No. 5099), who is returning home with the Derbyshire Company of the Imperial Yeomanry on board the transport Mongolian, is dangerously ill suffering from enteric fever. The information was conveyed to the War Office from Las Palmas, where the Mongolian arrived last Friday. Mr. Hodgkinson has also received a telegram from Captain Gisborne, who is in charge of the Derbyshire Company of the Imperial Yeomanry, to similar effect. It is greatly to be hoped that trooper Hodgkinson will be on the high way to recovery by the time the boat reaches England. He went out with the first batch of Yeomanry some 16 months ago, and enjoyed the best of health till last January, when he had to go into hospital for a short time. He, however, was soon able to return to duty.Derby Daily Telegraph, Monday 3rd June 1901
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DEATH OF CORPORAL HODGKINSON.
HIS BURIAL AT SEA.
A great gloom is cast over the proceedings [of the return of the Derbyshire Yeomanry] by the death of Corporal Hodgkinson, whose father, Mr. T. R. Hodgkinson, of the Market-place, Derby, first learned the sad news while waiting at Southampton to greet him. It is true the family had received information of his illness before the boat left Las Palmas, but whilst prepared for the worst, his friends naturally hoped for the best. The following account of the pathetic incident is written for us by one of the Yeomanry who was a close friend of the deceased soldier: -'Just after tea on June 1, when everyone except the mess orderlies were on deck enjoying the cool breeze of the evening, the orderly sergeant came round warning us that poor Hodgkinson was dead, and that we were to be ready to attend his funeral aft at 8.30. Six volunteered to carry him the little distance he would have to go on this side of the sea's surface, and these were naturally those who had been the most closely connected with him in the ranks. Men were warned for the firing party, and the remainder of the squadron were ordered to attend. The poor chap's body was sewn up in a hammock and laid on a grating, and was afterwards raised with all due reverence, and the mournful procession to the vessel's side commenced. A portion of the bulwark on the starboard side in the aft well had been lowered down, and, as the procession approached, the firing party presented arms and the body was lowered. The service for the burial of the dead at sea was at once commenced by Colonel Bromley Davenport, who recited the service in a most impressive manner, and the weirdness of the scene, lit up as it was by two small oil lamps, one being held by a sailor so that the colonel could read the service, was one never to be forgotten. The engines had been stopped, and as the words "We therefore commit his body to the deep" were uttered, the body was reverently dropped overboard, and the ship at once resumed her journey. The closing portion of the service was then read, and at its close the trumpets sang out on the still night "The last post." Everyone then filed quietly away to their quarters and to think that another of their comrades who had survived the hardships and dangers of the campaign should, at the moment when his native land was almost in view, be fated never to see his friends again.'
Derby Daily Telegraph, Monday 10th June 1901
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Medals to the Natal Police - by: djb
Strangely enough the site had no page dedicated to the Natal Police. I have rectified that today by splitting the Natal Volunteers, Police and Guides into two pages.
The new Natal Police page can be found here
I have added the QSA (44 pages) and supplementary (42 pages) pages from TNA rolls. These can be downloaded. There is also a list of the NP men who served in the Provisional Transvaal Constabulary (1 page).
New photos have been added, the majority from Holt's history.
I will add the unit orders to the page in due course.
The new Natal Police page can be found here
I have added the QSA (44 pages) and supplementary (42 pages) pages from TNA rolls. These can be downloaded. There is also a list of the NP men who served in the Provisional Transvaal Constabulary (1 page).
New photos have been added, the majority from Holt's history.
I will add the unit orders to the page in due course.
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Introduction - by: pmcoins
Greetings.
I am a professional numismatist living in Montreal, Canada. I have been a dealer for 44 years and no longer have bricks and mortar. I write for auction houses, buy and sell coins, paper money, tokens and collectibles. I am presently writing the Sherbrooke,Seminary collection which has over 20,000 pieces in it. One of the 1900 Brave Boys medals is what drew me to this site. Should you have any questions on coins from 600 BC to 1968, don't hesitate to ask.
I am a professional numismatist living in Montreal, Canada. I have been a dealer for 44 years and no longer have bricks and mortar. I write for auction houses, buy and sell coins, paper money, tokens and collectibles. I am presently writing the Sherbrooke,Seminary collection which has over 20,000 pieces in it. One of the 1900 Brave Boys medals is what drew me to this site. Should you have any questions on coins from 600 BC to 1968, don't hesitate to ask.
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Medals to HMS Monarch - by: djb
The medals to the commander of HMS Monarch during the Boer War
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Picture courtesy of DNW
QSA (4) CC Paard Drie Joh (Com: S. V. Y. De Horsey, R.N, H:M:S: Monarch) impressed naming, official correction to third initial;
1914-15 Star (Capt. S. V. Y. De Horsey, R.N.R.);
BWM & VM (Capt. S. V. Y. De Horsey. R.N.R.)
Spencer Victor Yorke de Horsey was born at Cowes, Isle of Wight, on 4 June 1863, son of Admiral Sir Algernon de Horsey, K.C.B. He joined the Navy as a Midshipman on 24 April 1879; Sub-Lieutenant, 24 April 1883; Lieutenant, 30 June 1886. He was Lieutenant in command of No. 52 torpedo-boat when it was run down and sunk in Argostoli Bay, Cephalonia, during night manoeuvres in October 1887, by a first-class boat of the attacking force, two men being drowned. As Senior Lieutenant of Archer he landed in command of a party for the protection of the British Legation at Söul during the war in Korea; was present when the Palace was taken and the King made prisoner by the Japanese forces in July and August 1894; with boats of Archer rescued, after two days’ search, the Captain and part of the crew of the Chinese cruiser Kuang Yi, destroyed to avoid capture in Prince Jerome Gulf. Received the thanks of the Chinese Government for this service.
In January 1898, as Lieutenant-Commander in Plover off North Borneo, he served in two expeditions against Si Tali, a proscribed rebel, resulting in his stockade being taken, and himself and followers killed or captured. In August 1898 he received the thanks of the Colonial Office for services rendered while with the special commission for the newly acquired territory near Hong Kong.
Commander of Monarch during the war in South Africa. Landed after Graspan to join the Naval Brigade; was present at the battle of Magersfontein and subsequent operations under Lord Roberts, including the taking of Pretoria, when he was severely wounded on 4 June 1900 (Twice mentioned in despatches, Queen’s medal with four clasps). De Horsey was specially promoted to Captain for services during the South African war (London Gazette 6 November 1900) and received a pension for wounds.
De Horsey was appointed Captain of the second class cruiser Scylla in June 1902, and of the armoured cruiser Kent in December 1905. He was promoted to Rear-Admiral in November 1909, and was placed on the Retired List, at his own request, on 21 August 1911. He was granted a temporary commission as a Captain in the Royal Naval Reserve on 14 November 1914. He was advanced to the rank of Vice-Admiral on the Retired List on 9 August 1915, and to the rank of Admiral on the Retired List on 1 January 1919. Admiral Spencer de Horsey died on 19 March 1937.
Picture courtesy of DNW
QSA (4) CC Paard Drie Joh (Com: S. V. Y. De Horsey, R.N, H:M:S: Monarch) impressed naming, official correction to third initial;
1914-15 Star (Capt. S. V. Y. De Horsey, R.N.R.);
BWM & VM (Capt. S. V. Y. De Horsey. R.N.R.)
Spencer Victor Yorke de Horsey was born at Cowes, Isle of Wight, on 4 June 1863, son of Admiral Sir Algernon de Horsey, K.C.B. He joined the Navy as a Midshipman on 24 April 1879; Sub-Lieutenant, 24 April 1883; Lieutenant, 30 June 1886. He was Lieutenant in command of No. 52 torpedo-boat when it was run down and sunk in Argostoli Bay, Cephalonia, during night manoeuvres in October 1887, by a first-class boat of the attacking force, two men being drowned. As Senior Lieutenant of Archer he landed in command of a party for the protection of the British Legation at Söul during the war in Korea; was present when the Palace was taken and the King made prisoner by the Japanese forces in July and August 1894; with boats of Archer rescued, after two days’ search, the Captain and part of the crew of the Chinese cruiser Kuang Yi, destroyed to avoid capture in Prince Jerome Gulf. Received the thanks of the Chinese Government for this service.
In January 1898, as Lieutenant-Commander in Plover off North Borneo, he served in two expeditions against Si Tali, a proscribed rebel, resulting in his stockade being taken, and himself and followers killed or captured. In August 1898 he received the thanks of the Colonial Office for services rendered while with the special commission for the newly acquired territory near Hong Kong.
Commander of Monarch during the war in South Africa. Landed after Graspan to join the Naval Brigade; was present at the battle of Magersfontein and subsequent operations under Lord Roberts, including the taking of Pretoria, when he was severely wounded on 4 June 1900 (Twice mentioned in despatches, Queen’s medal with four clasps). De Horsey was specially promoted to Captain for services during the South African war (London Gazette 6 November 1900) and received a pension for wounds.
De Horsey was appointed Captain of the second class cruiser Scylla in June 1902, and of the armoured cruiser Kent in December 1905. He was promoted to Rear-Admiral in November 1909, and was placed on the Retired List, at his own request, on 21 August 1911. He was granted a temporary commission as a Captain in the Royal Naval Reserve on 14 November 1914. He was advanced to the rank of Vice-Admiral on the Retired List on 9 August 1915, and to the rank of Admiral on the Retired List on 1 January 1919. Admiral Spencer de Horsey died on 19 March 1937.
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Medals to the Northumberland Fusiliers - by: plbramham@yahoo.co.uk
The Transvaal War Album – The British Forces in South Africa 1900
This album depicted the various regiments and other principal units of the forces engaged in the Boer Campaign of 1899-1900, which were illustrated by photographers and journalists employed by the publishers.
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Kaplan Auctions - by: djb
Michael Kaplan has released the details for auction 63, on 15 May 13. There is a very good selection of single QSAs listed:
P036
Disk only converted into a brooch pin to Pte A.W. DURHEIM Green River D.M.T.
EF
500
B036A
No Bar: W. MACDOUGALL I.M.R.
EF
900
Y036B
No Bar: 6340 Pte O. JONES. Devon Regt
VF+
850
P037
No Bar: 177 Pte S.J. MARAIS New England M.R.
VF+
1000
Y037A
No Bar: 159 Pte G.S. ROPER Naauwpoort Town Guard
EF
1400
P038
No Bar: MR P.W. CURRIE Natal Govt R LYS
EF
800
Y038A
No Bar: 4052 Pte J.H. McMILLAN E Lanc Regt
EF
850
P039
No Bar: 600 Pte A.J.H. WASSMAN Uitenhage T.G.
EF
800
P040
No Bar: RT Rev H. McSHERRY – engraved as issued
VF
1500
P041
No Bar: 26 Sergt C. ASHBY Steynsburg T.G.
EF
900
P042
No Bar: 23 L. Corpl W.G. FRASER CARNARVON D.M.T.
EF
900
P043
No Bar: 937 Pte E. JOHNSON P Elzbth T.G.
EF
800
P044
No Bar: 46 L/Cpl J.E. GOLDSMITH P. Elzbth D.M.T.
EF
800
P045
No Bar: F. JUDD C.G.R.
EF
800
P046
No Bar: M.C. WILLEMSE Imp Mil. Rlys
EF
800
P047
No Bar: J.H. De Beer C.G.R.
EF
800
P048
No Bar: W.H. HOBSON C.G.R.
EF
800
P049
No Bar: 81 Tpr J.A. JOHANNSEN Paarl Dis M.T. (renamed)
EF
400
P050
No Bar: 16 Cpl E. JOHNSON Jansenville T.G.
EF
800
P051
No Bar: 6783 Pte D.M. PATON Rand Rif.
EF
800
P052
No Bar: 652 Pte G. WEIGHTS Namqlnd T.G.
EF
1200
P053
No Bar: 143 Serjt T.H. ELLIOTT Peddie D.M.T.
EF
1000
P054
No Bar: 2978 Tpr E. FLANEGAN Stutterheim D.M.T.
EF
900
P055
No Bar: Tpr S.J. JAKINS Vict. East D.M.T.
EF
1000
P056
No Bar: 52 Pte J.D. JALIS Worcester T.G.
EF
800
P057
No Bar: H. ROBINSON C.G.R.
EF
800
P058
No Bar: ARMR Serjt: J. RIEDER Cradock T.G. – suspender loose
VF
700
P059
No Bar: 72 Tpr J. MILSON Aberdeen D.M.T. – only 100 issued
EF
1000
P060
No Bar: Pte R.G.B. BROLI Bedford T.G.
VF+
950
P061
No Bar: 752 Tpr H. CLEMENTS Driscoll’s Scts
EF
900
P062
No Bar: 12537 Pte J.D. BABCOCK Rand Rifles
EF
800
P063
One Bar: Rel of L to Orderly R. BARDWELL Imp Hosp Corps
EF
1100
P064
One Bar: CC to 1305 Pte G.G. IMPEY Prince Alf. Vol. Gd
EF
950
P065
One Bar: CC to 241 Lt R.J. McCALLUM Frontier Lt Horse
VF+
1100
P066
One Bar: Cape Colony to 1565 Pte L.L.D. SIMS Cape Town Highrs
EF
1000
P067
One Bar: Cape Colony to 816 Pte G. READING 1st City Vols
VF
900
P068
One Bar: Transvaal to 552 Tpr J. GOSS S.A.C.
VF
900
P069
One Bar: Transvaal to Mr A.O. FORBES Imp Mil Rly
VF
900
P070
One Bar: Cape Colony to 120 Tpr T. VOGES D.E.O.V.R.
EF
950
P071
One Bar: Cape Colony to 1218 Pte J. TARBLANCH Prince Alf. Vol. Gds
EF
950
P072
One Bar: Cape Colony to 559 O.R. Sjt J.W. TURNBULL Cape G.A.
VF
950
P073
One Bar: Cape Colony to 956 Tpr H. YEANDLE Roberts Horse
EF
950
P074
One Bar: Defence of Kimberley to Pte F.W. COLLER Kimberley Town Gd
EF
2200
P075
One Bar: Cape Colony to 208 Serjt H.J. HAYCOCK D. of E Own V.R.
EF
950
P076
One Bar: Def of Kimb Sejt G. SHARLAND Kimberley T.G.
EF
2200
P077
One Bar: TVL 1709 Tpr A. WELLS Imp Lt H
VF
900
Y077A
Two Bars: CC; OFS to 32050 Gnr H. ChAMBERLAIN 78th Bty RFA
VF
850
P078
Two Bars: CC; OFS to Mr T. FRICKER Imp Mil Rly
EF
950
P079
Two Bars: CC; SA 0 to 38 Tpr S. KLAASE C.C.F.
EF
950
P080
Two Bars: CC; Tvl to 486 Pte S GOUWS Bec’Land Rif
EF
1000
P081
Two Bars: CC; OFS to 394 Mr H COOPER A.S.C.
EF
1000
P082
Two Bars: CC; SA02 to Tpr J. ROBINSON C.C. Forces
VF
1000
P083
Two Bars: Tvl; SA 02 to 484 Tpr W.S. HARE Pietersburg L.H.
EF
1700
P084
Two Bars: CC; OFS to 1472 Pte H. PAUTZ Cape P.D.I.
EF
1000
P085
Two Bars: Tvl; SA 02 to Pte R.J. WYLIE PTRSBRG Town Gd
EF
1000
P086
Two Bars: CC; Tvl to 27 Pte H.V. NEVENS Thorneycroft S.M.I.
EF
1000
P087
Two Bars: CC; Tvl to Lieut L.W. WOLRIGE York and Lanc Rgt – engraved
EF
1200
P088
Two Bars: CC; Rel of L to 99 Tpr A. ADLARD SA L.H.
EF
1000
P089
Two Bars: CC; OFS to 1790 L.Cpl S.H. NEL Cape P.D.I.
EF
1000
P090
Two Bars: CC; Tvl to 38896 Pte R.D. MEREDITH Thorneycroft’s M.I.
EF
1000
P091
Two Bars: CC; Tvl to 28 Tpr W. BOWER Scotts Rly Gds with small silver shooting medal.
EF
1050
U091A
Two Bars: Def of Ladysmith, Tvl
5235 Pte T. McDONOUGH Manchester Regt
EF
2150
U091B
Two Bars: Cape Colony, Tvl
9897 Cpl W.B. WARNER A.S.C. – engraved as issued
EF
2000
U091C
Three Bars: Rel of L, Laing’s Nek, Belfast
3917 Pte J. McDONALD Gordon Highrs
VF
3600
P092
Three Bars: CC; OFS; Tvl to 1628 Pte M. ANDREWS Rly Pin Regt
EF
1100
P093
Three Bars: CC; OFS; Tvl to 5780 Pte J LACEY NTHPTN Regt
EF
1100
P094
Three Bars: CC; Tvl; Wittebergen to 4154 Pte D.N. BERRY Worcester Regt
EF
1100
P095
Three Bars: CC; OFS; Jhb to 500 Sjt A.A.A. VON BLERK Prince Alf Vol. Gds
EF
1100
P096
Three Bars: CC; OFS; SA02 to 1574 Pte C.F.F. HOFT Cape P.D.I.
EF
1100
P097
Three Bars: CC; OFS; SA01 to 222021 Pte H. LESCHKE Queenstown R.V.
EF
1100
P098
Three Bars: CC; OFS; Tvl to 20246 Tpr J. CULLEN Brabant’s Horse
VF
1100
P099
Three Bars: CC; OFS; SA01 to 260 Tpr A.E. BROWN S.A.C.
VF
1100
P100
Three Bars: CC; OFS; Tvl to 2321 Tpr J. WESTON S.A.C.
EF
1100
P101
Three Bars: CC; OFS Tvl to 20106 Tpr J.A. NYHOLM Brabant’s Horse
VF
1100
P102
Three Bars: Tvl; SA01, SA02 to 25384 Pte W.AQ. THORN C.M.S.C.
EF
1100
P103
Three Bars: CC; SA01; SA02 to Civ Clerk S.T. RAWNSLEY A.S.C.
EF
1100
P104
Three Bars: CC; OFS; SA01 to 26588 Tpr P.S. LUND SA Lt Horse
EF
1100
P105
Three Bars: CC; OFS; SA01 to 2551 Tpr R. THOMSON SA Lt Horse
EF
1100
P106
Three Bars: OFS; Tvl; SA01 to 430 Tpr J. MORIARTY Driscoll’s Scouts
EF
1100
P107
Three Bars: CC; OFS; Tvl to 194 Serjt A. HAZELL S.A.C.
1100
P108
Three Bars: CC; OFS; SA01 Cpl R. ROBERTS 32nd Coy 2nd Imp Yeo – last 2 bars loose on ribbon
EF
1200
P109
Three Bars: Tvl; Belm; M. Riv; MR A.G. ROSS Imp Mil RLY
VF+
900
P110
Three Bars: Natal; OFS; TVL 4217 Pte H. HOUGHLIGAN RL Dublin Fus
VF+
1200
P111
Three Bars: 145 Pte M.R. HARRIS LD Strathconas H
Suspender damaged Bars Natal; Belf; SA1902
VF
800
P112
Three Bars: CC; Witt; SA 1901 7555 Pte J.J. WOODFORD 38th Coy Imp Yeo
1100
P113
Four Bars: CC; Paard; Drie; Tvl 3305 Tpr A. BERGMAN Kitcheners Horse
EF
1400
P114
Four Bars: OFS; L. Nek; Bel; SA1902 1578 Tpr B.P. JOHNSON SA Lt Horse
EF
1200
P115
Four Bars: CC; OFS; Tvl; SA01 to 23504 Tpr G.H. PARKINS Kitchener’s Horse
EF
1200
P116
Four Bars: CC; OFS; Tvl; SA01 to 22222 Tpr S.V. VAN BREDA C in C Bodyguard
EF
1200
P117
Four Bars: CC; Tvl; Wittenbergen; SA01 to Sjt A.M. SHEPPARD Border H
EF
1200
P118
Four Bars: CC; OFS; SA01; SA02 to 172 Cpl H.C. WALTERS C.M.S.C.
EF
1200
P119
Four Bars: CC; OFS; Tvl; SA01 to 24345 Tpr L.T. LOMBERG Scottish Horse
VF
1200
P120
Four Bars: CC; OFS; Tvl; SA01 to Pte G.E. WANNELL 8th Coy Imp Yeo – attempted name erase over number and unit.
VF
900
P121
Four Bars: CC; OFS; Tvl; SA02 to 7922 Pte P ROBERTS Vol Coy Liverpool Regt with 9ct shooting medal named to Corporal Roberts 1900 – 01
EF
1400
P122
Five Bars: CC; Paard; Drie; JHB; Diam H 3594 Tpr H. McNABOE Kitcheners Horse
EF
1300
P123
Five Bars: Cape Colony; OFS; Tvl; SA01; SA02 to 40911 Tpr C.H. GRIFFIN Scottish Horse
EF
1300
P124
Five Bars: CC; Tugela Heights; OFS; Rel of L; Tvl to 5351 Sgt A. GRUBB 2nd Rl Fus.
EF
1300
P125
Six Bars: CC; T.Heights; OFS; Rel of L; Tvl; Laing’s Nek to 473 Serjt J. IMRIE Bethune’s M.I.
EF
1500
U125A
Six Bars: Rel of K, Paardeberg, Drief, TVL; SA01; SA02
770 Pte W.H. BRADBURY W. Riding Regt
EF
3250
There are no commercial links between this site and Kaplan Auctions. These items are listed for information only.
Regards
David
P036
Disk only converted into a brooch pin to Pte A.W. DURHEIM Green River D.M.T.
EF
500
B036A
No Bar: W. MACDOUGALL I.M.R.
EF
900
Y036B
No Bar: 6340 Pte O. JONES. Devon Regt
VF+
850
P037
No Bar: 177 Pte S.J. MARAIS New England M.R.
VF+
1000
Y037A
No Bar: 159 Pte G.S. ROPER Naauwpoort Town Guard
EF
1400
P038
No Bar: MR P.W. CURRIE Natal Govt R LYS
EF
800
Y038A
No Bar: 4052 Pte J.H. McMILLAN E Lanc Regt
EF
850
P039
No Bar: 600 Pte A.J.H. WASSMAN Uitenhage T.G.
EF
800
P040
No Bar: RT Rev H. McSHERRY – engraved as issued
VF
1500
P041
No Bar: 26 Sergt C. ASHBY Steynsburg T.G.
EF
900
P042
No Bar: 23 L. Corpl W.G. FRASER CARNARVON D.M.T.
EF
900
P043
No Bar: 937 Pte E. JOHNSON P Elzbth T.G.
EF
800
P044
No Bar: 46 L/Cpl J.E. GOLDSMITH P. Elzbth D.M.T.
EF
800
P045
No Bar: F. JUDD C.G.R.
EF
800
P046
No Bar: M.C. WILLEMSE Imp Mil. Rlys
EF
800
P047
No Bar: J.H. De Beer C.G.R.
EF
800
P048
No Bar: W.H. HOBSON C.G.R.
EF
800
P049
No Bar: 81 Tpr J.A. JOHANNSEN Paarl Dis M.T. (renamed)
EF
400
P050
No Bar: 16 Cpl E. JOHNSON Jansenville T.G.
EF
800
P051
No Bar: 6783 Pte D.M. PATON Rand Rif.
EF
800
P052
No Bar: 652 Pte G. WEIGHTS Namqlnd T.G.
EF
1200
P053
No Bar: 143 Serjt T.H. ELLIOTT Peddie D.M.T.
EF
1000
P054
No Bar: 2978 Tpr E. FLANEGAN Stutterheim D.M.T.
EF
900
P055
No Bar: Tpr S.J. JAKINS Vict. East D.M.T.
EF
1000
P056
No Bar: 52 Pte J.D. JALIS Worcester T.G.
EF
800
P057
No Bar: H. ROBINSON C.G.R.
EF
800
P058
No Bar: ARMR Serjt: J. RIEDER Cradock T.G. – suspender loose
VF
700
P059
No Bar: 72 Tpr J. MILSON Aberdeen D.M.T. – only 100 issued
EF
1000
P060
No Bar: Pte R.G.B. BROLI Bedford T.G.
VF+
950
P061
No Bar: 752 Tpr H. CLEMENTS Driscoll’s Scts
EF
900
P062
No Bar: 12537 Pte J.D. BABCOCK Rand Rifles
EF
800
P063
One Bar: Rel of L to Orderly R. BARDWELL Imp Hosp Corps
EF
1100
P064
One Bar: CC to 1305 Pte G.G. IMPEY Prince Alf. Vol. Gd
EF
950
P065
One Bar: CC to 241 Lt R.J. McCALLUM Frontier Lt Horse
VF+
1100
P066
One Bar: Cape Colony to 1565 Pte L.L.D. SIMS Cape Town Highrs
EF
1000
P067
One Bar: Cape Colony to 816 Pte G. READING 1st City Vols
VF
900
P068
One Bar: Transvaal to 552 Tpr J. GOSS S.A.C.
VF
900
P069
One Bar: Transvaal to Mr A.O. FORBES Imp Mil Rly
VF
900
P070
One Bar: Cape Colony to 120 Tpr T. VOGES D.E.O.V.R.
EF
950
P071
One Bar: Cape Colony to 1218 Pte J. TARBLANCH Prince Alf. Vol. Gds
EF
950
P072
One Bar: Cape Colony to 559 O.R. Sjt J.W. TURNBULL Cape G.A.
VF
950
P073
One Bar: Cape Colony to 956 Tpr H. YEANDLE Roberts Horse
EF
950
P074
One Bar: Defence of Kimberley to Pte F.W. COLLER Kimberley Town Gd
EF
2200
P075
One Bar: Cape Colony to 208 Serjt H.J. HAYCOCK D. of E Own V.R.
EF
950
P076
One Bar: Def of Kimb Sejt G. SHARLAND Kimberley T.G.
EF
2200
P077
One Bar: TVL 1709 Tpr A. WELLS Imp Lt H
VF
900
Y077A
Two Bars: CC; OFS to 32050 Gnr H. ChAMBERLAIN 78th Bty RFA
VF
850
P078
Two Bars: CC; OFS to Mr T. FRICKER Imp Mil Rly
EF
950
P079
Two Bars: CC; SA 0 to 38 Tpr S. KLAASE C.C.F.
EF
950
P080
Two Bars: CC; Tvl to 486 Pte S GOUWS Bec’Land Rif
EF
1000
P081
Two Bars: CC; OFS to 394 Mr H COOPER A.S.C.
EF
1000
P082
Two Bars: CC; SA02 to Tpr J. ROBINSON C.C. Forces
VF
1000
P083
Two Bars: Tvl; SA 02 to 484 Tpr W.S. HARE Pietersburg L.H.
EF
1700
P084
Two Bars: CC; OFS to 1472 Pte H. PAUTZ Cape P.D.I.
EF
1000
P085
Two Bars: Tvl; SA 02 to Pte R.J. WYLIE PTRSBRG Town Gd
EF
1000
P086
Two Bars: CC; Tvl to 27 Pte H.V. NEVENS Thorneycroft S.M.I.
EF
1000
P087
Two Bars: CC; Tvl to Lieut L.W. WOLRIGE York and Lanc Rgt – engraved
EF
1200
P088
Two Bars: CC; Rel of L to 99 Tpr A. ADLARD SA L.H.
EF
1000
P089
Two Bars: CC; OFS to 1790 L.Cpl S.H. NEL Cape P.D.I.
EF
1000
P090
Two Bars: CC; Tvl to 38896 Pte R.D. MEREDITH Thorneycroft’s M.I.
EF
1000
P091
Two Bars: CC; Tvl to 28 Tpr W. BOWER Scotts Rly Gds with small silver shooting medal.
EF
1050
U091A
Two Bars: Def of Ladysmith, Tvl
5235 Pte T. McDONOUGH Manchester Regt
EF
2150
U091B
Two Bars: Cape Colony, Tvl
9897 Cpl W.B. WARNER A.S.C. – engraved as issued
EF
2000
U091C
Three Bars: Rel of L, Laing’s Nek, Belfast
3917 Pte J. McDONALD Gordon Highrs
VF
3600
P092
Three Bars: CC; OFS; Tvl to 1628 Pte M. ANDREWS Rly Pin Regt
EF
1100
P093
Three Bars: CC; OFS; Tvl to 5780 Pte J LACEY NTHPTN Regt
EF
1100
P094
Three Bars: CC; Tvl; Wittebergen to 4154 Pte D.N. BERRY Worcester Regt
EF
1100
P095
Three Bars: CC; OFS; Jhb to 500 Sjt A.A.A. VON BLERK Prince Alf Vol. Gds
EF
1100
P096
Three Bars: CC; OFS; SA02 to 1574 Pte C.F.F. HOFT Cape P.D.I.
EF
1100
P097
Three Bars: CC; OFS; SA01 to 222021 Pte H. LESCHKE Queenstown R.V.
EF
1100
P098
Three Bars: CC; OFS; Tvl to 20246 Tpr J. CULLEN Brabant’s Horse
VF
1100
P099
Three Bars: CC; OFS; SA01 to 260 Tpr A.E. BROWN S.A.C.
VF
1100
P100
Three Bars: CC; OFS; Tvl to 2321 Tpr J. WESTON S.A.C.
EF
1100
P101
Three Bars: CC; OFS Tvl to 20106 Tpr J.A. NYHOLM Brabant’s Horse
VF
1100
P102
Three Bars: Tvl; SA01, SA02 to 25384 Pte W.AQ. THORN C.M.S.C.
EF
1100
P103
Three Bars: CC; SA01; SA02 to Civ Clerk S.T. RAWNSLEY A.S.C.
EF
1100
P104
Three Bars: CC; OFS; SA01 to 26588 Tpr P.S. LUND SA Lt Horse
EF
1100
P105
Three Bars: CC; OFS; SA01 to 2551 Tpr R. THOMSON SA Lt Horse
EF
1100
P106
Three Bars: OFS; Tvl; SA01 to 430 Tpr J. MORIARTY Driscoll’s Scouts
EF
1100
P107
Three Bars: CC; OFS; Tvl to 194 Serjt A. HAZELL S.A.C.
1100
P108
Three Bars: CC; OFS; SA01 Cpl R. ROBERTS 32nd Coy 2nd Imp Yeo – last 2 bars loose on ribbon
EF
1200
P109
Three Bars: Tvl; Belm; M. Riv; MR A.G. ROSS Imp Mil RLY
VF+
900
P110
Three Bars: Natal; OFS; TVL 4217 Pte H. HOUGHLIGAN RL Dublin Fus
VF+
1200
P111
Three Bars: 145 Pte M.R. HARRIS LD Strathconas H
Suspender damaged Bars Natal; Belf; SA1902
VF
800
P112
Three Bars: CC; Witt; SA 1901 7555 Pte J.J. WOODFORD 38th Coy Imp Yeo
1100
P113
Four Bars: CC; Paard; Drie; Tvl 3305 Tpr A. BERGMAN Kitcheners Horse
EF
1400
P114
Four Bars: OFS; L. Nek; Bel; SA1902 1578 Tpr B.P. JOHNSON SA Lt Horse
EF
1200
P115
Four Bars: CC; OFS; Tvl; SA01 to 23504 Tpr G.H. PARKINS Kitchener’s Horse
EF
1200
P116
Four Bars: CC; OFS; Tvl; SA01 to 22222 Tpr S.V. VAN BREDA C in C Bodyguard
EF
1200
P117
Four Bars: CC; Tvl; Wittenbergen; SA01 to Sjt A.M. SHEPPARD Border H
EF
1200
P118
Four Bars: CC; OFS; SA01; SA02 to 172 Cpl H.C. WALTERS C.M.S.C.
EF
1200
P119
Four Bars: CC; OFS; Tvl; SA01 to 24345 Tpr L.T. LOMBERG Scottish Horse
VF
1200
P120
Four Bars: CC; OFS; Tvl; SA01 to Pte G.E. WANNELL 8th Coy Imp Yeo – attempted name erase over number and unit.
VF
900
P121
Four Bars: CC; OFS; Tvl; SA02 to 7922 Pte P ROBERTS Vol Coy Liverpool Regt with 9ct shooting medal named to Corporal Roberts 1900 – 01
EF
1400
P122
Five Bars: CC; Paard; Drie; JHB; Diam H 3594 Tpr H. McNABOE Kitcheners Horse
EF
1300
P123
Five Bars: Cape Colony; OFS; Tvl; SA01; SA02 to 40911 Tpr C.H. GRIFFIN Scottish Horse
EF
1300
P124
Five Bars: CC; Tugela Heights; OFS; Rel of L; Tvl to 5351 Sgt A. GRUBB 2nd Rl Fus.
EF
1300
P125
Six Bars: CC; T.Heights; OFS; Rel of L; Tvl; Laing’s Nek to 473 Serjt J. IMRIE Bethune’s M.I.
EF
1500
U125A
Six Bars: Rel of K, Paardeberg, Drief, TVL; SA01; SA02
770 Pte W.H. BRADBURY W. Riding Regt
EF
3250
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David
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Buitendag, F W C. Burger - by: djb
2 duplicate names on the roll.
Forename/initials: Frederick Willem C. Served: Potchefstroom.
Forename/initials: Frederick Willem Coenraad. Served: General Cronje.
Forename/initials: Frederick Willem C. Served: Potchefstroom.
Forename/initials: Frederick Willem Coenraad. Served: General Cronje.
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