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Doug,

I'll have another look through the Boer War records and see if we can narrow down the search.

Best wishes
David

Frank,

252 J Slattery of the ILI received Tr TH RoL & LN.

Do you think is forename is not James?

With thanks
David

WO127 states John, he was the obvious man upon looking a check in WO126/55-65 would be needed here.

Oh

Just looked at the nominal roll. Its John.

Thank you Frank.

I've looked through all the J Slattery men and John Slattery is the only one I can see with the RoL clasp. There are no DoL clasps either.

Not sure where to go from here?

I would go with WO127, I doubt very much if an error was made, upon looking at the medal rolls, he was the obvious choice, perhaps a little too obvious, many of those men really did earn their Relief of Ladysmith clasp, hard times!