QSAs with raised dates - by: QSAMIKE
Good Evening Everyone...... If anyone has deep pockets...... www.jeffreyhoare.on.ca/ Lot Number 5 Also this badge is very rare....... Lot Number 450 Mike
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Medals to Isandhlwana casualties - by: djb
From DNW, December 2004. Pictures courtesy of DNW The South African campaign medal to Sub-Lieutenant T. L. G. Griffith, 2nd Battalion, 24th Foot, youngest of the battalion’s five officers killed at the...
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Medals to the men of Rorke's Drift - by: djb
Picture courtesy of DNW SAGS (1) (12046. Driver, C. Robson. R.E.) Sole March 2017 for £110,000. Charles John Robson was born on 7 January 1855, in the Parish of St George’s, London. He enlisted into...
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Medals to the Army Service Corps - by: djb
Picture courtesy of DNW East & West Africa 1887 (1) Sierra Leone 1898-99 (Capt. H. L. Humphreys, A.S.C.); QSA (3) Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein (Major. H. L. Humphreys, A.S.C.) Harry Lionel...
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Private Leonard E. Smith, City Imperial Volunteers - died at Pretoria...
In Chelmsford Cathedral, although at the time of the memorial's installation it was the Church of St Mary the Virgin. A CHELMSFORD MAN'S ROUGH SHAVE.. Pt. L. E. Smith, of the C.I.V., writing to his...
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The Indian Contingent - by: David Grant
The Corps of Guides This bronze QSA was my find of last year and it was found locally. The naming is indistinct but "Corps" and "Guides" as well as the prenominal number "35" can be seen with a glass....
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QSA - Copy clasps - by: djb
I saw a QSA on a dealer's site today and immediately thought the DoM clasp was a copy. Here are are the clasps. What do you think?
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Can anyone help decipher some handwriting? - by: Hudsontwin
Hi all, I am struggling to read the handwriting on Sgt.M T Smithwick's entry in the Border Scouts KSA Medal roll . Any help will be appreciated. thanks
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Medals to the Protectorate Regiment and PR Field Force - by: djb
[/i] Picture courtesy of Warwick and Warwick BSACM reverse Matabeleland 1893 (1964 Corpl A.J. Green B.B. Police) QSA (3) OFS DoM Tr renamed in official style to 58 Tpr A.J. Green Prot Rgt With copied...
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Medals to HMS Beagle - by: djb
Some 142 medals to HMS Beagle. From the next C&T Auction
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New Zealand slouch hat badge - by: djb
A lovely badge from the next C&T Auction. Described as a 'fine example badge in the form of the fern leaf with NZ in the centre and two lug fittings to the reverse'. Picture courtesy of C&T...
View ArticleMedals to the Natal Guides - by: djb
There is something very appealing about QSAs to the Natal Guides. I am not sure if it is their role, unit size or the rank on the medal - or perhaps all three aspects? From City Coins #70: QSA (1)...
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Captain Percy S. Parker, East Lancashire Regiment - died at Heilbron,...
Memorial to Percy Swinburne Parker, and family grave, in the graveyard at St James' Church, Haslingden, Lancashire. Haslingden Volunteers for the Front. FRIDAY'S DEPARTURE. On Friday afternoon last, as...
View ArticleSamuel Whittaker, Imperial Yeomanry - suicide at Blackburn 30.11.1901 - by:...
Trooper's Suicide in a Blackburn Park. A sensation was caused at Blackburn on Saturday by a man shooting himself in the Blackburn Corporation Park, near the Cannons at Revidge. The deceased is said to...
View ArticleILH papers? - by: rdarby
Does anyone know if anything is available for the ILH? I’m trying to find attestation papers or anything for Captain W Jardine. Thanks Ryan
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An Army Post Office Display..... - by: QSAMIKE
Good Morning Everyone...… I do not want to take anything away from David's Photo Album which is a fantastic set of pictures but I thought I would add a display that I had a number of years ago........
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Boer War DSOs - by: djb
There were some 1,160 DSOs awarded for the Boer War. At the time of the Boer War it was given to officers with senior command responsibilities, typically upwards of Major, however it was bestowed upon...
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Timothy Mullane, AB, RN, HMS DORIS - by: Baden Powell
A recent rather large exchange of medals with a long-time friend and fellow collector brought six medals into my hands. One of which was a two clasp QSA, Cape Colony and Paardeberg to T. (Timothy)...
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Captain Edward Lucas - Natal Carbineers - DoD - 7 August 1900 - by: Rory
Lucas was one of only 3 Natal Carbineers officers who perished during the Boer War - I am proud to be the custodian of his medal Edward Lucas Captain, Natal Carbineers (Officer Commanding Richmond Road...
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Medals to HMS Doris - by: djb
Picture courtesy of DNW Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg (151569 A-B: T. Mullane, H.M.S. Doris) [Trio] Timothy Mullane was born in Killeagh, co. Cork, on 18 March...
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