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QSA (0) (PTE J. SUMPTON KIMBERLEY T.G.)
Kimberley Star ‘b’, unnamed as issued.

No clasp medal verified. Roll states "Electrical work; searchlights and telephones"

Sold for a hammer price of £400.

From the City Coins auction, 4 November 2022

QSA (1) Defence of Kimberley (Pte W. H. Close. Kimberley Town Gd;)
Kimberley Star, 'a' with top suspender, unnamed as issued.

QSA (3) Defence of Kimberley, Orange Free State, Transvaal, (152 Bomb: G. de Smidt. Diamond F.A.);
Kimberley Star, 'a', with top suspender, unnamed as issued.

Bombardier George Alfred de Smidt was taken prisoner at Klipdrift on 7 March 1902, he returned on 8 March at Maritzini.

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QSA (1) Defence of Kimberley (Mr. J. K. Bray. Post Office Corps.)

Maurice's History of the War in South Africa, Vol. 4, gives some detail on this unit:

'At the beginning of the campaign the strength of this Corps was three Officers, eighty-nine other ranks, composing one Company of the 24th Middlesex (Post Office) Volunteers. These men, like all the 24th Middlesex, were drawn from the London Post Offices, and were those who had been specially enlisted for a period of six years in the Army Reserve to render them available for foreign service. This original force, which proceeded to the seat of War in October, 1899, soon became totally inadequate to the growing needs of the Army. Reinforcing drafts followed rapidly, drawn at first from the 24th Middlesex, but later from the postal services of all the provinces of Great Britain, and even to a small extent from those of Canada, Australia, Cape Colony and India. The greatest strength attained at the height of the campaign was ten Officers, a Warrant Officer, and 396 other ranks, with, in addition, twenty civilian clerks and 100 soldiers attached for orderly duties.'

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QSA (3) Defence of Kimberley, Orange Free State, Transvaal (4993 Pte C. Broughton, 1st L.N. Lanc: Regt);
[ KSA (2) ]

Some 422 members of the 1st Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment participated in the Defence of Kimberley.

Seaby February 1975 £45.

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QSA (3) Defence of Kimberley, Orange Free State, Transvaal (4962 Pte. J. Clarke, 1st L. N: Lanc: Regt.);
[ KSA (2) ]

Wounded 5 May 01 at Brakpan.

QSA sold Sotheby November 1980.

QSA (3) Defence of Kimberley, Orange Free State, Transvaal (4962 Pte. J. Clarke, 1st L. N: Lanc: Regt.);
[ KSA }

Wounded 5 May 01 at Brakpan. QSA (3), [KSA (2)] Sotheby November 1980