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Natal Railway and Mesopotamia New Aquisition..... - by: QSAMIKE
Good Afternoon Everyone...... For your viewing pleasure..... Just picked up a couple of interesting pieces, on for myself and one for a friend that collects railway items (if he wants it LOL)..........
View ArticleLooking for service record of William Nicholas Boer War - by: Nicholasa
Dear All, Sometimes one just wishes one listened to our elders much more when we were younger. But I have been told that my Grandfather came over to came to Cape Town to look after the horses that were...
View ArticleHello... - by: RichardE
I am researching my great grandfather Battery Sergeant Major 57398 William George PHILLIPS DCM...he was with 28 Battery RFA during the Boer War. Would be grateful for any information on how he won his...
View ArticleJust joined - by: Garykalem
Hi My name is Gary Kalem Just to introduce my self...long term medal collector ( started as we do when given my great grandfathers WW1 pair some 45 years ago...has been going down hill since then)....
View ArticleFodder - by: wbabbott
On 1 May 2016, at 20:27, Warren Abbott <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.> wrote: Hello Capt. Biggins, I’m Capt. (ret.) Warren Bruce...
View ArticleArmy Form B.111 - 1900 Attestation - by: QSAMIKE
Good Evening Everyone..... I am looking for the following: Army Form B.111 - 1900 Attestation In a format that can be filled out..... Does anyone have this type of form in a computer format, or on a CD...
View ArticleQSA to the Basutoland Civil Service - by: Brett Hendey
There is an interesting post on the GMIC about Dr Edward Charles Long, who was the Principal Medical Officer in Basutoland over the period of the Boer War. It was written that he was awarded a no clasp...
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"Dutchie" Christianson - From the D.L.I to the U.M.P. And then K.F.S. - by: Rory
The name "Dutchie" stemmed from Christianson's hatred of the Boers - a hatred resulting from the death of his brother at the hands of the Boers as a POW during the Anglo Boer War Henry Lewis...
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Just here to introduce my great-grandfather.... - by: Zolat
Hi I've been looking through some of my family photos and history over the past few weeks, as I'm stuck at home with an awful knee injury! My great-grandpa, John Hutchieson Kennedy, was in the Boer...
View ArticleQSA with Kings Clasp...help - by: sadbrewer
Hi..I'm enquiring on behalf of a friend ..he has the medal with the following clasps..Laings Nek, Orange Free State , Transvaal, Cape Colony , south Africa 1901 and South Africa 1902. It was awarded to...
View ArticleJames Alexander Ford - by: Rowland
I am searching for information about my wife's (Anna Rowland nee Crew) Great Grandfather James Alexander Ford who joined the war as part of the Third Queensland Contingent listed as soldier 152 in the...
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Captain Arthur David Ripley Pott, 3rd King's Own Scottish Borderers - by:...
In St John's Episcopal Church, Dumfries.
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Private William C. Bindloss, 2nd V.B. Border Regiment - by: BereniceUK
In Parkside Cemetery, Kendal, Westmorland. DEATH OF AN ACTIVE SERVICE VOLUNTEER : MILITARY FUNERAL. It is only about three months since Private William Bindloss, of the 2nd V.B. Border Regiment,...
View ArticleUnnamed ABO and DTD at Baldwin's this week - by: djb
In the Baldwin sale this week were an unnamed ABO and DTD. Unlike other medals in this part of the auction which were stamped 'specimen', these two were simply unnamed examples. Described as: 2256...
View ArticleHelp needed to decipher medal rolls. - by: Sug
Does anyone know what the annotations mean on my grandfathers medals rolls for the Kings and the Queens South African medal and clasps. His name was Robert Maguire 6415 of the Royal Irish Fusiliers....
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Tasmanian Nurse Elizabeth ORR - by: LinneyI
Forum members Whilst journeying up Soldier's Walk in Queen's Domain, Hobart to visit the Boer War Memorial, IL noticed the illustrated plaque - situated quite close to the said Memorial. The plaque...
View ArticleOur Military Background. - by: pcuttiford2012
Hi I served in my county Yeomanry as my father did before me, but my grandfather served with the Royal Welch Fusiliers in South Africa. He has 3 bars on the Queens South Africa Medal -The Transvaal,...
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A Leader in the Natal Voluntary Ambulance Corps - by: Rory
John Cooper is a mystery man but, notwithstanding the fact that we know very little about him, it took a brave man to fetch and carry the dead and wounded from the battlefields of Colenso and...
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“was lost and is found” The Military Story of GTW Webb - by: SWB
In the recent April Spink sale a number of Webb family medals were sold dating from the Peninsula to WWII. All the groups have research apart from a QSA and miniature to Lt GT Wynne-Webb RGA which...
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