District Mounted Troops - by: Ian Brentnall
Today I received my long awaited QSA to a Hex River D.M.T. trooper - one of only 23 to all ranks. If anyone has any other DMT's that they're willing to sell or swap, I'd be very interested in chatting.
View Article8410 Corpl. A. Henry Highland L.I. - by: SgtRock
Hello, I am new to this group! I collect medals and in particular British Victorian era campaign medals plus several other periods to include but not limited to US Civil War, Spanish American war, WWI...
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State clasps - by: Fae_austin
I am helping my Grandma to research her father's role in the Boer War. He was in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and has both the Queen's South Africa and King's South Adrica medals, with the...
View ArticleState clasps - by: Fae_austin
I am helping my Grandma to research her father's role in the Boer War. He was in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and has both the Queen's South Africa and King's South Adrica medals, with the...
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18th, 21st and 23rd Battalions (Sharpshooters) Imperial Yeomanry - by:...
In St Martin in the Fields Church, Trafalgar Square, City of Westminster, London.
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Christmas Tragedy - Drowned in Boksburg Lake - WJ Hogg - by: Rory
William John Duncan Hogg Corporal, 8th (Kings Royal Irish) Hussars – Anglo Boer War - Queens South Africa Medal with clasps Cape Colony, Orange Free State & Johannesburg (self-awarded) to 3823...
View ArticleWilliam Allen Great Uncle - by: Lauchlan10
The last record I have found of the above is a letter he wrote to my Great Grandmother in NZ from Elandsontein, Johannesburg on 14th December 1901. I have no record of what regiment he was in. I don't...
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The death of the Natal Police - by: Rory
Whilst browsing through the 18 December 1911 edition of The Star newspaper I stumbled across this article.
View ArticleCasualties in Victoria's other wars? - by: djb
I had a great response to enquiry about Boer casualties in the ABW and will be adding the data to the site shortly. I am wanting to compare the casualties figures in the ABW with other campaigns so...
View ArticleWhy are South African DCM's usually Edward Reverse? - by: rdarby
I collect only to South African units e.g. The Imperial Light Horse, as opposed to British units such as the 8th Hussars. As part of this I sometimes come across an interesting DCM to a South African....
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Les English au Transvaal - vignettes satirique sur la guerre de Boers - by: djb
I had the opportunity to visit the Musee de l'Armee in Paris today. Ever hopeful of finding a QSA, there were not in the collection on display and of course there's no reason why they would have any...
View ArticleWar Office paper on Court of Inquiry into treatment of British Soldiers - by:...
Good Day. I am trying to access two items I found referenced in the Saturday, September 22, 1900 issue of The Lancet, the British Medical Journal. One is described as "the paper issued by the War...
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A Prince Alfred's Own Cape Artillery man in the Boer War - by: Rory
Toler was a hard man to find - for reasons known only to the enumerators at the various census' that took place in the United Kingdom in Victorian England they were rather insistent that he was a...
View ArticleCol. Sam Steele..... Yes or No - by: QSAMIKE
Good Evening Everyone...... Is the seller extremely lucky in finding this or is it ?????? WWI-Era-Named-British-Colonels-Dress-Coat-Distinguished-Decorated-Canadian 142017080775 Mike
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QSA to the Liverpool Regiment - by: Rory
I acquired a QSA with clasps DoL and SA 1901 to 5303 Pte. P. Joyce of the 1st Battalion, Liverpool Regiment today and, whereas I have tracked him down on the rolls for the Defence of Ladysmith clasp, I...
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Percy Craig, killed in action at Peters Hill, 22.2.1900 - by: BereniceUK
FELL IN ACTION AT PETER'S HILL, S.A. FEB. 22ND 1900, AGED 18 YEARS. The other names on the gravestone, in Southern Cemetery, Manchester, are William Harrison, his wife, Ann, and their son, Private...
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Private John Thornborrow, Border Regiment - died at Pretoria, 15.9.1900 - by:...
On the outside south wall of St Mary's Church, Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland (now Cumbria). There are another three stone tablets there too, looks to me as though they were originally inside, but were...
View ArticleGrandfather's service - by: MKallman
I grew up listening to stories of my grandfather's service in the British Army, as a 15 year old. According to his stories he was a bugler for a Lancers Unit. His name Clarence Victor Felix Källmann,...
View ArticleGrandfather's medals - by: MKallman
My grandfather served in the Boer War and WW1, possibly German East Africa. He attached little import to his medals and sold them several years before his death in 1980. His name Clarence Victor Felix...
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