The Queen's South Africa (QSA) medal could be issued with zero to 26 clasps in a variety of combinations. These combinations are of great interest to many medal collectors.The number of clasps on a QSA is one collecting facet. As I build a new QSA medal roll index, the table below shows the numbers of clasps issued on the QSA drawn from the current 124,948 QSA clasp entitlement on The Register. As more data is added these numbers will change.
| Clasps | No Date Clasps | All Including Date Clasps |
| 0 | 12178 | 12178 |
| 1 | 12098 | 12374 |
| 2 | 12808 | 20827 |
| 3 | 23504 | 26316 |
| 4 | 10368 | 33208 |
| 5 | 6203 | 26305 |
| 6 | 3583 | 4828 |
| 7 | 396 | 846 |
| 8 | 146 | 207 |
| 9 | 0 | 37 |
| 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Total QSA | 69106 | 124948 |
You can get the number of multi-clasp medals (not segmented by date clasp) in The Research Centre, scroll down to "Number of clasps awarded on a QSA".
There are no 10 clasp QSAs, but I have included this number as some may believe 10 clasp QSAs were issued. The
June 1972 issue of the Military History Journal published an article
entitled Queen's South Africa Medal with 10 Bars by GR Duxbury. I had another look at the medal in question, a 10 clasp medal named to Trooper M(oses) Wilson Damant's
Horse. The medal was part of the Ronnie Hunt collection on permanent loan to
the SA National War Museum, now the Ditsong National Museum of Military
History. I wrote a reply, The ten-clasp QSA mystery resolved, Military History Journal (South African Military History Society) vol 125 No 5 June 2012.
I established that Trooper Wilson's 10 clasp QSA Belmont, Modder River, Paardeberg, Driefontein,
Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen, Relief of Kimberley, South Africa 1901
and South Africa 1902 should be an eight clasp QSA with the two date clasps on the King's South Africa medal. See https://theangloboerwars.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-ten-clasp-qsa-myth-or-reality.html
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