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With the Imperial Light Infantry and Kitchener's Fighting Scouts - A Laing -...
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...
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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...
View ArticleBoer 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...
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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...
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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....
View ArticleNotable 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,...
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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...
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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,...
View ArticleAlcohol 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...
View ArticleThomas W. Hodgkinson, 8th (Derbyshire) Coy I.Y. - died at sea, 1.6.1901 - by:...
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...
View ArticleMedals 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...
View ArticleIntroduction - 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...
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Medals to HMS Monarch - by: djb
The medals to the commander of HMS Monarch during the Boer War 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...
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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...
View ArticleKaplan 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...
View ArticleBuitendag, 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.
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