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London Stock Exchange - by: BereniceUK
This is the 2017 roll of honour, unveiled on 14th November that year outside the headquarters, which has been in Paternoster Square, The City, since 2004. The original ABW memorial is a marble tablet,...
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Canadan Scouts - by: Roscoe
Anthony Ross Canadan Scouts, Many thanks to every one that replied, I am new to this and I am most sorry to have waisted any ones time, I did not finish what I actually wanted to post due to an...
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Medals to the Mount Currie Reserves - by: djb
Mount Currie is located in East Griqualand, in eastern Cape Colony. There were several units operating in this area: Griqualand Light Horse. WO100/247p23 East Griqualand Mounted Rifles. WO100/247p24 -...
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Medals to the Umzimkulu Reserves - by: djb
The Umzimkulu Reserves were a very small force raised in the eastern Cape. The Reserves were raised in September 1901 and disbanded at the end of the war. The medal roll, WO100/286p86 comprises a...
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Medals to the Ladismith Town Guard - by: djb
Ladismith lies some 300 km east of Cape Town. Unusually for a town Guard, a main roll and reserve roll was submitted and, rather than being combined into one, medals were issued to both units, the...
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DEFENCE OF MAFEKING on eBay..... - by: QSAMIKE
If anyone is interested or has any money left from the DNW and Spinks sales...…. 1899 QSA Boer War Medal Defence of Mafeking •M22 Buy It Now
View ArticlePatrick Calligan, Canadian Volunteers - died at Middlesbrough, 6.9.1900 - by:...
THE SUDDEN DEATH OF A CANADIAN AT MIDDLESBROUGH. An inquest was held yesterday at the Royal Hotel, Middlesbrough, by Mr H. Mackereth, deputy coroner, on the body of Patrick Calligan (26), a Canadian...
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P.O.W. - by: Roscoe
Has anyone ever seen one of these? I would like to find out more ......I wonder what happen to this poor chap?
View ArticlePrince Alfred's Guard Mounted Infantry Photographs and information - by:...
Hi All New to the forum. I am busy looking into my family tree, and came across some material on this site with reference to the above unit for a Frederick Thomas Beath a sgnt farrier with the unit in...
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Uniform check - by: djb
Someone emailed a picture to me yesterday of a relative in uniform. Could this be the uniform of the 4th Royal Dublin Fusiliers or 4th Royal Muster Fusiliers?
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The Sephtons of Zeerust - by: SWB
At the recent Spink sale I was drawn to lot 619, Pte E Sephton Zeerust Town Guard because the catalogue write-up noted the remark on the medal roll “Killed by Boers”. Only 24 Town Guard are recorded as...
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JS Verheem - Lieutenant, Transvaal Staats Artillerie & Bermuda P.O.W. - by: Rory
Jacobus Stephanus Verheem – Prisoner of War Lieutenant, Transvaal Staats Artillerie – Anglo Boer War - Anglo Boere Oorlog Medal to Luitenant J.S. Verheem Jacobus Verheem was born in Pretoria in the...
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Nussel Bay Town Guard - by: djb
In WO126 are a few miscellaneous TG attestation papers including one containing 9 names to a Nussel Bay unit. I thought this might be a mistake for Mossel Bay but the page containing the signatures is...
View ArticleMissing CGHGS and QSA - by: Adrian123456
Dear forum I am trying to re-unite a Cape of Good Hope LS&GC medal to the CMR with its missing CGHGS Clasps Basutoland and Bechuanaland, and its QSA with clasps Wepener, Wittebergen, Cape Colony,...
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E Michaelis P.O.W. 1901 - by: Roscoe
Has anyone ever seen one of these? I would like to find out more ......I wonder what happen to this poor chap?
View ArticleMemorialisation of the second Boer War in British public and private schools...
A 2018 University of Roehampton Doctoral Thesis, by Dennis Huggins, the full title of which is 'Memorialisation of the second Boer War in British public and private schools and its implications for WWI...
View ArticleJameson Raider and Boer War - by: Droocoo
Hi all this is my first post here so forgive me if I have posted this in the wrong section, I am researching Colonel Arthur Guy Leslie Pepys who fought as a trooper with the Mashonaland Mounted Police...
View ArticleMedals to Tucker's Scouts - by: djb
Prompted by today's post on John Lewis , I looked at QSAs to Tucker's Scouts There are 13 men listed on the single page roll (WO100/277p246). Of these 2 are crossed through. It looks like 7 medals and...
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