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Zulu Dawn - Zulu - Shaka Zulu - by: QSAMIKE

May 27, 2017, 8:58 pm
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Was supposed to go out tonight to a birthday party but the birthday boy came down with the flu so it was postponed for a week......

Decided to see if there was anything on the box......

A local station was playing a marathon.......

ZULU DAWN - ZULU - SHAKA ZULU.......

The PVR will be working overtime tonight.......

M.
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Battles/ Skirmishes at Moodies (Barberton), Schurwekop - by: Juba

May 27, 2017, 10:49 pm
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Good day

I received my great great grandfathers Vorm B recently. He said that he participated in battles at Moodies (Spelled as "Modies Barberton" on his Vorm B ) in Barberton and Schurwekop. Can anyone please tell me if there were any battles/ Skirmishes at these locations during the war?

My great great grandfather fought for the Carolina Commando, Ward III from 4 October 1899 to 2 June 1902 .

Regards

Ryno
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Battles/ Skirmishes at Moodies "Modies" in Barberton and Schurwekop - by: Juba

May 27, 2017, 10:54 pm
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Good day all

I received my great great grandfather's Vorm B recently. He said that he participated in battles at Moodies (Spelled as "Modies Barberton" on his Vorm B ) in Barberton and Schurwekop. Can anyone please tell me if there were any battles/ Skirmishes at these locations during the war?

My great great grandfather fought for the Carolina Commando, Ward III from 4 October 1899 to 2 June 1902 .

Regards

Ryno
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Thank you Berenice - by: djb

May 28, 2017, 12:42 am
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Berenice,

I note that you have made 999 posts to the forum so before your 1,000th, I wanted to say a very big thank for all your contributions. Your research on memorials and the very many excellent photos you have shared with us have added hugely to the site.

With grateful thanks
David
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80th (Staffordshire Volunteers) Regiment - 1878-1879 - by: BereniceUK

May 28, 2017, 12:24 pm
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St. Michael's Chapel, Lichfield Cathedral, Staffordshire. Not great photos, too many blurred images, but I was able to transcribe the names.



Erected by the Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Men
30th (Staffordshire Volunteers) Regiment who served in South Africa.
To the Memory of their Comrades who fell during the Sekukuni & Zulu Campaigns 1878-1879.





Killed at Ntombe, River Drift

Captain David B.Moriarty
Civil Surgeon Cobbin
Colour Sergeant Henry Fredericks
Lance Sergeant George Sansam
Corporal Ernest Johnson
Corporal John McCoy
Drummer John Leather
Private Jonah Adey

Private John Anthony
Private Arthur Banks
Private John Banner
Private George Broughton
Private James Brown
Private Henry Brownson
Private John Chadwick
Private James Christie
Private Alfred Day





Private John Dodd
Private John H.Dutton
Private William Farrell
Private William Findley
Private William Flyfield
Private William Fox
Private John Furniaux
Private Edwin Gittings
Private Joseph Green

Private George Hadley
Private Julian Hart
Private George Haynes
Private Eli Hawkes
Private Thomas Healey
Private Henry Hill
Private Thomas Hodges
Private John Hughes
Private John Ingham





Private Henry Jacobs
Private John Lafferty
Private Ralph Leese
Private Henry Lodge
Private Bernard H.Sherry
Private Henry Meadows
Private Arthur Middow
Private George Mitchell
Private Robert Moore
Private William Moran

Private Henry Night
Private William Phipps
Private Charles Pritchard
Private Arthur Purnell
Private Frederick Ralphs
Private John Robinson
Private Henry Ruffle
Private Michael Sherridan
Private Joseph Silcock
Private Henry Smith





Private Joseph Tibbott
Private George Tucker
Private Thomas Tucker
Private Richard Tomlinson
Private James Vernon
Private Joseph Weaver
Private Herbert Woodward

Killed at Isandhlwana

Sergeant William Johnson

Private John Chesterton
Private Edwin Holman
Private Henry Thompson
Private William McDonald
Private William Seymour
Private Joseph Whitehouse

Killed at the Battle of Ulunin

Sergeant Henry Watts
Private Joseph Floyd





Sergeant Charles Tatum
Lance Sergeant Myles Duggan
Lance Corporal Ewen Graham
Private William Bond
Private Fredk. Buttler
Private John Corry
Private Thomas Cook
Private William Dyball
Private Alex. Manson

Private John Morton
Private John Moss
Private Thomas Morris
Private Richard Owen
Private Arthur Simpson
Private John Smith
Private Joseph Smith
Private Henry Upton







I couldn't get the flash to work for this photo because there was too much light in the frame.



Post #1,000. :cheer:
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Royal Horse Guards - by: QSAMIKE

May 28, 2017, 5:35 pm
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Good Evening Everyone.......

Does anyone have a spare QSA, bars not important, named to The Royal Horse Guards that they wish to part with???????

Please let me know by PM.......

Mike
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Private Thomas Elcocks, King's Shropshire Light Infantry - K.I.A. 6.11.1900 - by: BereniceUK

May 29, 2017, 12:21 pm
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In All Saints' Church, Wellington, Shropshire. Wellington is now part of Telford New Town.

4728 Private Thomas Elcocks, King's Shropshire Light Infantry. Killed in action at Lilliefontein, South Africa, on 6th November 1900, aged 25. Son of Thomas and Emma Elcocks, of 17, Cemetery Road, Wellington.

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1st Battalion Connaught Rangers - by: QSAMIKE

May 29, 2017, 3:24 pm
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Good Afternoon Everyone......

Does anyone have any records or the above unit......

I am looking for information on: 1812 Private P. Quirke, 1st Connaught Rangers (single bar Cape Colony)

I have gone through all of FMP and he is not listed and he is also not listed in the Units section of the forum......

Thanks in Advance......

Mike
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Worthy of Research - Zulu - Boer - WW1 - by: QSAMIKE

May 30, 2017, 6:28 am
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Tailor's Ribbon Chart - by: QSAMIKE

May 30, 2017, 7:12 am
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Good Morning Everyone......

I was doing some house cleaning yesterday and found a number of things that I had put away and forgotten.....

Here is one item...... A Ribbon Chart made with samples of ribbons...... I think it is of WW1 period because you can see where what looks like a set of full and half wings have been removed, not by me, and some of the WW1 ribbons......

Yes I noticed the KSA, also I have seen the QSA/KSA ribbon where they have been woven together and have a sample length of it.....

The one I have not seen before is the DCM/QSA/KSA woven together, there would not be much use for that one.......

Mike




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Sword - by: Rderry

May 31, 2017, 3:14 pm
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I have a family heirloom sword that we think an ancestor brought back from South Africa to the UK it has an inscription on it f2 82 8H 19 ... I think that's the 19th hussars but any way that I can confirm it and whose it was. We think Robert Jones or maybe Abraham Phillips
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Delville Wood - by: Aud

May 31, 2017, 9:16 pm
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Hello from South Africa
For a couple of years, we have been helping a man to put together the story of one young man who died in Delville Wood.
He has just finished putting together his site and I thought members might be interested to have a look at this.
There are some interesting photos of the young man’s journey until his death in Delville Wood.
There is also a list of the NCOs and men of B Coy, 2nd Regt South African Infantry.
www.awillowinthewind.com/

Audrey
Rhino Research
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Service Medal of the Order of St John - first award on 6 Jan 1900? - by: djb

June 2, 2017, 6:16 am
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The Service Medal is awarded for a number of years of service, 12 or 10 and can be awarded for conspicuous service.

It was announced in the St John Ambulance Brigade General Regulations for 1895, paragraph 11:

By command of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, Grand Prior of the Order, the Council of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England intimate that Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to authorise the issue of Service Medals to reward Distinguished Services and to encourage efficiency and long service in the various Departments of the Order.

Members of the Brigade who have performed distinguished services, or have served honourably and efficiently for a period of not less than fifteen consecutive years, will be eligible for this medal.

It was minted in 1899. According to a snippet of research I have, the first presentation of these Medals was by the Prince of Wales at Marlborough on 6 January 1900.

This from The Times, 9 Jan 1900.

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How do I find out which medals my Grandpapa got in the Boer War? - by: HeatherMc

June 2, 2017, 11:19 am
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Hi, I am finding it very difficult to find which regiment my Grandpapa Donald McLean, was in, during the Boer War, I don't know if he was maybe a volunteer at the time. He was born 20/10/1880 in Glasgow, and was Acting Corporal in WW1 where he had died. I would love to find out which medals he may have got for the Boer War but I am going round in circles trying to find an easy way to find the information about him. Can anyone help? Ive found about 3 possibles, but without knowing their date of birth, Ive no way of knowing if its him or not :( :unsure: :unsure:
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POW of the Boers-Gloucester Regt - by: Georgegt351

June 3, 2017, 2:25 am
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I have just been lucky enough to purchase a QSA to 4055 PTE G. Barrett of the 1st Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regt who was made a POW at Nicholson's Nek on the 30th of October 1899. He had only arrived in South Africa on the 25 th of September and spent the next 10 days in cells for being drunk on duty only returning to duty on the 5th of October.
The medal has the clasps Natal, Orange Free State and Transvaal .
After this experience he spent from Dec 1900 until the end of March 1902 on St Helena guarding Boer POW's before returning to South Africa with the 2nd battalion and qualifying for the South Africa 1902 clasp-not with medal.
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4054 Pte C.Williams 6th Dragoon Guards-died Germiston 17 Jan 1901 - by: Georgegt351

June 4, 2017, 2:36 am
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Just purchased this medal-does anybody on this forum know where he is buried and have a photo of the grave- last time I asked a similar question relating to a medal I have I got an outstanding repose.He has Cape Colony, Orange Free State and Belfast and is engraved.
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Private Christopher Thompson, 3rd Batt. Durham Light Infantry - by: Elmarie

June 5, 2017, 2:40 am
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Private C Thompson
Number: 4687
Drowned 2nd March 1900 at Thomas River, Cathcart - Eastern Cape
Buried: Historical Village Cemetery, Cathcart district, South Africa

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Private William Badman, 4th Batt. Somerset Light Infantry - by: Elmarie

June 5, 2017, 2:45 am
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Private W Badman
Number: 5019
KIA
Buried: Historical Village Cemetery, Cathcart district, Eastern Cape South Africa
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4848 PTE D.Mc Intrye 2nd Dragoon Guards Died Sanderton 23 Nov 1901 - by: Georgegt351

June 5, 2017, 6:03 am
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I have been very busy and have picked up another casualty as named above , 3 State clasps and S.Africa 1901.

Does anybody know where he is buried or have a photo of the grave or if mentioned on a memorial-thanks.
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Leinster Regiment Grave Markers - by: Stephen_C

June 5, 2017, 3:28 pm
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Hi all,

I'm currently finishing some work for publication and have a number of Leinster Regiment soldier's who died in South Africa, from research I have, many of these soldiers are recorded as have grave markers such as iron crosses or stone markers.

I would be very anxious to get images of these if at all possible. Does anyone have any advice or suggestions where to go or perhaps someone has these already recorded. I have the exact details of each man and where he is buried - so please get in touch if you think you can help.

Regards,

Stephen
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