Hope someone has deep pockets, a Rorkes Drift medal...... - by: QSAMIKE
For your information....... www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1067186...oes-sale-50-000.html M.
View Article21 MI- what does it mean? - by: rob carman
The attached SNP shows a search result. What does 21 MI mean?
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Lieut. Herbert C. W. Berthon, 2nd Black Watch - died of wounds, 15.12.1899 -...
He was fatally wounded at Magersfontein, and died at Wynberg; the body was later exhumed, brought back to England, and his final resting place is at Cleeve, Somerset. . The west side of Holy Trinity...
View ArticleCasualty returns from the war - by: ChrisE
Q.S.A. with the clasps for NATAL and BELFAST awarded to Private 1908 P. Duffy. I have made a previous post about whether or not Private Duffy was a fatal casualty at Bergendal on the 27th of August...
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Private 3559 William Allen, 1st Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment - by:...
Private 3559 William Allen, 1st Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment Rory recently gave us a very full account of a “successful” man from a “successful” family. I am about to descend towards the...
View Article7 Bar QSA / 2 Bar KSA to R.A.M.C. - by: QSAMIKE
Good Morning Everyone...... There is an interesting Seven Bar QSA along with a KSA on ebay at the present time..... I have looked him up on FMP but there is no listing..... Has this medal been sold at...
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Uniform Identification - by: CatherineCoomber
Hello I recently inherited this photo and I am trying to Identify to uniform Wonder if anyone could possibly help I am thinking it may be my Great Grandfather who was in the A H Corps number 1562 Thank...
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Medals to Gorringe's Flying Column - by: Moranthorse1
TROOPER GEORGE GREGOR BUTTNER QUEEN'S SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL CLASPS: CAPE COLONY/SOUTH AFRICA 1991 CONDITION: VGF. BRIGHT PATINA George Gregor Buttner was the son of German settlers. His entitlement to...
View ArticleJ. Gutridge from Dundee Town Guards - by: ggutridge
When I do a Name search on the web site for Gutridge J - it lists James Thomas Gutridge as being a member of the Dundee Town Guard. I would like to query the 'James Thomas Gutridge' that appears here...
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George Thomas Pyke - a Jameson Raider - by: Rory
George Thomas Pyke Jameson Raider Trooper, “G” Troop, B.B.P. (Bechuanaland Border Police) Trooper, M.R.F. (Matabeleland Relief Force) - British South Africa Company Medal (1896 reverse) to TROOPR. G.T....
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3076 Private S. J. Hale, Grenadier Guards - died of enteric fever, 19.10.1900...
In All Saints' Church, Kingston Seymour, Somerset. His birth would seem to have been registered in the second quarter of 1873, making his age at death 27, not 28. . Although resident in Brighton, his...
View ArticleHubert Godwin Jones - 6th Dragoons Inniskillings - KIA 04/01/1900 - by: Woburn1
I am helping a volunteer grave restorer, Steve Davies, who cleans military graves in the South East. We are currently researching Hubert Godwin Jones who appears on his brother’s grave stone (Richard)...
View ArticleJoe and Frank Hadfield, Cape Government Railways - by: BereniceUK
....Mr G. H. Hadfield, of Atherton [Lancashire], has two sons employed on the Cape Government Railways, and in an interesting letter written by "Joe," at Beaufort West, on the 4th December, to his...
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Doctor John Prestwich - died from pneumonia at Howick, 28.8.1900 - by:...
In Atherton Cemetery, the town of Atherton being 5 miles east of Wigan, and 2 miles north of Leigh. . Dr. Prestwich's is the only ABW-related death I've found from Atherton so far. There was a brass...
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Medals to the Queensland Mounted Rifles - by: djb
Picture courtesy of Noble Numismatics QSA (4) Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Belmont, with pin-back suspender (196 Pte J.J.Hanley, Queensland M.R.) Impressed. 196 Pte James John Hanley,...
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Medals to the Australian Commonwealth Horse - by: djb
Picture courtesy of Noble Numismatics QSA (2) Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (627 Pte E.L.Were. Aust:Com:H.) Impressed. 27 Pte Eric Laurenny Were, 2nd Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse confirmed...
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Re: Pietermaritzburg - by: djb
Here is an old postcard of the monument in PMB. Does anyone know if it is still there:
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Medals to the 12th Lancers - by: coldstream
A new aquistion from the wakefield medal fair today. 2804 S.Q.M.Sejt Charles Albert Jotcham 12th Lancers Charles a native of Liverpool was born in 1865 He attested on 20 November 1185 his age is stated...
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Durban - by: djb
The volunteers marching out of Durban The 2nd Gordons entraining at Durban:
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