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Title: Army Reserve
079/Misc/1179
PA 10/5/12

NCO or men of the Army Reserve do not come under the conditions of para 1256 Royal Warrant, regarding forfeiture of Medals.

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68/SA/936
PA 12/10/06
folio 113

Title: Forfeiture of SA Medals by men of S African Constabulary.

Offences committed prior to 9.7.02 ie whilst the SAC were considered as soldiers.

Provision of the Royal Warrant 9KR as to forfeiture of Medals (68/SA/8703) cannot be applied to the SAC after 9.7.02. Similarly the provisions relative to restoration of forfeited medals cannot be applied to them after that date.

AG3 15.9.06. The medals cannot be regained unless the man resumes his status as a soldier and completes the necessary service.

Case of No A/562 Trooper J Gibson, SAC.

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AG2/M/15710

Trooper G Forrest P/BSA Police, King's Medal. Tried FGCM, Mafeking, 7.5.02

(1) Offering violence to his superior officers
(2) Resisting escort

28 days ILH [sic] and discharged (B of O) 16.6.02

Allow medal as he was not tried or discharged till after the conclusion of peace, ie had he been convicted and so discharged, the medal being in his possession there would have been no authority by which his medal could be retaken.

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AG2/Medals/14522
16.2.05

South African medals forfeited by NCO and men, South African Constabulary, who have been struck off as deserters, to be returned to War Office, to be broken up.

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68/87/888
PA 22/1/02
Folio 401

A soldier convicted (16.7.01) under Section 18, Army Act, forfeiting the Queen's SA Medal and clasps earned prior to that date afterwards re-earns the Queen's Medal and such clasps as he subsequently became entitled to. His service prior to 16.7.01 cannot be allowed to reckon towards the period qualifying for the grant of the King's Medal vide paras 3, 9, 15 Army Order 232 of 1902. AG3 minute 12.12.06.

Case of No 6175 Pte J Smyth, late 2nd Brn Royal Irish Fusiliers.

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68/43/248

Title: King's Medal

A soldier who did no actual duty in the field subsequent to 27.12.01 not eligible for grant of Medal notwithstanding the fact of the services previously forfeited by him having been restored under para 204 KR.