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Good Morning Everyone...…

This has been posted on BMF by Mr. Bill Harris who has given me permission to post here..... Hope that you can help him out..... I do not have any men from Windsor....

Thanks Bill......

Mike



There have been a few Canadian QSAs posted recently, and it got me wondering about whether any of our members own medals to any of the men who are identified on the South African War memorial in my hometown of Windsor, Ontario (pics below). The names on the memorial are:

RCR
Pte. E.C. ANDREWS
Cpl. Harry Bayard BARR, died Apr. 30, 1900
Pte. F.C. BEERS
Pte. J.C. BIGGS
Sgt. R.B. BOWDEN
Pte. E.D. CRAIG
Bglr. E.N. DOLMAN
Pte. A.P. JELL
Pte. V.F. MARENTETTE (this man likely a French Canadian)
Pte. J.N. NORTHWOOD
Pte. A.E. PADDON
Cpl. G.R.S. PHILLIPS
Pte. D.A. REID
Pte. J.B. ROBINSON
Pte. C.K. RORISON
Cpl. W.R. STEVENSON
Pte. Walter Raymond WHITE, KIA Feb. 18, 1900
Pte. G.B. WHYTE

1st CMR
Pte. G.A. FORBES
Capt. A.H. KING
Cpl. A.A. MCDONALD
Pte. W.R. MAYCOCK
Pte. F.C. PECK
Pte. W. TILLEY
Pte. E.H. TRIPP
Pte. M.S. WIGLE
Pte. L. WIGLE

2nd, 3rd & 4th CMR, and SA Constabulary
Lt. E.B. ALLEN
Pte. T.B. BALFOUR
Pte. C. CHALK
Pte. C. CHASE
Pte. N. CRAIG
Pte. E.A. DEVITT
Pte. E. FLEMING
Pte. T. GUILFOYLE
Pte. J. GILLEAN
Pte. F.D. HARTFORD
Pte. J. JOHNSTONE
Pte. E. KENNEDY
Pte. J. LYNN
Pte. J. MCCLINTIC
Pte. A.T. MCCLEAN
Pte. J. MARKS
Pte. J. MERRITT
Pte. W. NEWMAN
Pte. A. ORTON
Pte. W. RYALL
Pte. J. SEPNER

I am not a QSA/KSA collector, but I have always wondered whether the medals to these "local" men (I imagine some if not most were British born, while some may have been Americans) were still extant and possibly in the hands of other collectors.

I have done a check and cannot find any KSA's for any of these men only the Queen's medal...…

Mike

I had to look this up, but if anyone was confused like me, Windsor is in Essex County, Ontario. Definitely not Essex, England!

The Windsor Evening Record is available to view online, if anyone would like to have a search through.
news.google.com/newspapers?nid=mYLs_rVKH...tsec=frontpage&hl=en