A Collection of Queen’s South Africa Medals to Colonial Units 628
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Orange Free State, Transvaal, clasp block loose on riband, as issued (Trvlg: Clcal: Staff: R. B. Christie. Imp: Trnspt: Ser:) extremely fine, rare to rank
£80-120
Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2002. R. B. Christie served as a member of the Travelling Clerical Staff with the Imperial Transport Service during the Boer War. Sold with copied medal roll extract which confirms clasp entitlement.
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QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (380 Corpl: G. S. Georgeson. Kaffrn: Rifles) nearly extremely fine
£60-80 QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, no clasp (Pte. D. Jones. Kei Road Col. D.F.) very fine, rare to unit
D. Jones served with the Kei Road Section, Colonial Defence Force during the Boer War. Approximately 36 medals awarded to the unit.
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QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Transvaal (4001 Tpr: W. Blankensee. Kitchener’s Horse.) very fine
£80-120
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (50 Tpr: A. E. Beechey. Kitchener’s F.S.) edge nicks, very fine
£80-120 A. E. Beechey served with Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts during the Boer War.
W. Bayley served with the Koffyfontein Defence Force during the Boer War. 633 QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, no clasp (16 Pte. W. Bayley. Koffyfontein D.F.) good very fine, scarce to unit £60-80
634
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (124 Tpr: E. M. Hamshire, B. Sqad: Lock’s Horse) traces of broken rivets to top lugs, nearly extremely fine
£70-90
Loch’s Horse was raised by Lord Loch in February 1900. With a combined strength of 220, during their 12 months’ service ‘they shared in the advance from Bloemfontein to the Transvaal as part of the 8th Corps of Mounted Infantry commanded by Colonel Ross of the Durham Light Infantry, the Brigadier being Colonel Henry. The 8th Corps were part of the advance guard or screen to the centre of Lord Roberts’ army, and had a lot of scouting skirmishing in the northward march. Colonel Henry’s men, including the 1st and 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles, South Australians, Tasmanians, Lumsden’s Horse, Loch’s Horse, and the 4th Mounted Infantry Regulars, were among the first to cross the Vaal, and had very stiff fighting before the infantry got up, particularly at the mines in the neighbourhood of Vereeniging, about Elandsfontein, and outside Pretoria. Their work was highly praised by the Generals and by the correspondents.’ (The Colonials in South Africa, refers)
635
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (283 Dvr: E. H. Waller. Lumsden’s Horse) toned, nearly extremely fine
£160-200 Ernest Henry Waller, a coffee planter by trade, served in the Transport Section of ‘B’ Company, Lumsden’s Horse during the Boer War.
Lumsden’s Horse was an irregular unit of mounted volunteers raised by subscription in India. Commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel D. M. Lumsden of the Assam Valley Volunteers, it consisted of two squadrons of cavalry and a maxim gun detachment. Its members were mostly tea, coffee or indigo planters from across India, along with a few gentlemen, merchants, clerks and civil servants, altogether some 240 strong.
The regiment sailed from Calcutta in February (A Squadron) and March (B Squadron). Once both squadrons had been assembled in South Africa, they joined Lord Robert’s Army at Bloemfontein, where they were attached to Colonel Ross’s Mounted Infantry. They took part in several sharp engagements during the advance to Pretoria, and after its occupation were engaged in outpost work and skirmishing. They later took part in the march from Machododorp to Heidelberg, where they were engaged in further severe fighting.
When the Regiment returned home in November 1900, they found that they were the toast of India. Lord Roberts sent a telegram to the Viceroy expressing his appreciation for their excellent services, stating, ‘It has been a pride and a pleasure to me to have under my command a volunteer contingent which has so well upheld the honour of the Indian Empire.’
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J. W. Moorrees served with the Malmesbury Defence Corps during the Boer War. QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, no clasp (Pte. J. W. Moorrees. Malmesbury D.C.) very fine, scarce to unit
£70-90
637 QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, no clasp (Tpr. W. Webster. Malton Dist. R.A.) extremely fine and rare to unit £80-120 Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, June 2002.
W. Webster served with the Malton District Rifle Association during the Boer War, one of four very small Rifle Associations in the Natal.
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QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Transvaal (236 Tpr: G H. Kretzschmar. Menne’s Scouts) edge bruising, very fine
£70-90
Menne's Scouts did much to protect the railway communication between Natal and Pretoria, chiefly in the neighbourhood of the Natal and Delagoa Railways, specialising in hit and run night raids.
R. Toner served with the Midland Mounted Rifles during the Boer War. 639 QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (159 Tpr: R. Toner. Midland M.R.) nearly extremely fine £50-70
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