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Thursday, 1 June 2023

The King's South Africa medal, it's clasps and issue regulations

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  Queen Victoria died in January 1901 while the war raged on. Her son and successor, King Edward the VII, decided he wanted to award a camp...

The Queen's South Africa medal, it's clasps and issue regulations

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The issue of the QSA can be complex. Each unit created a nominal roll and entered the clasp entitlement. This was sent to the War Office f...
Friday, 31 March 2023

Battles of the Boer War - who was W Baring Pemberton?

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Having recently read this book and been impressed by it's novel approach I wanted to know more about "W Baring Pemberton. The 1972 ...
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Wednesday, 22 March 2023

Sandy Grieve - the piper of Delville Wood

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The story of Sandy Grieve piping the remnants of the South African infantry out of Delville Wood in July 1916 is well known and easily found...
Saturday, 11 March 2023

Casualties - don't simply trust newspapers

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A recent post on eBay selling a QSA to Pte 6374 J Cooper, 1st bn Oxfordshire Light Infantry has again highlighted the need to double check a...
Thursday, 2 February 2023

JP Tinling - Administrator of the Annexed Transvaal

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The QSA medal roll give the information that JP Tinling was a “Civilian Conductor of Watchmen” attached to the Army Service Corps. There is ...
Wednesday, 14 December 2022

Imperial Yeomanry - Natal clasp

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The Natal clasp to the Imperial Yeomanry (IY) is the seventh scarcest clasp issued to the IY with 59 men marked on the medal rolls as entitl...