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2nd Dragoon Guards 8 years 9 months ago #45257

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Hello.
I am possibly interested in picking up a 5 bar q.s.a to the 2nd Dragoon Guards who died of disease.
A couple of questions if I may that I am hoping I could get some clarification on please.
Firstly the medal rolls confirm the 5 clasps but my confusion comes with how the clasps were issued, for example my reading, (if correct), indicates the 2nd arrived in country in late 1901 but to have received the CC, OFS, TV clasps these would have all indicated being in country earlier, (this I understand from the army regulations for issuance of the medal). Is this possible? Secondly where would I find any enlistment papers for the chap? I have a subscription to one website but nothing on there.
Hopefully someone can help
Many thanks
Dan.

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2nd Dragoon Guards 8 years 9 months ago #45258

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To qualify for the clasps you mention, your man had to actually serve in country at any time between the clasp qualification dates. That series of clasps is generally what I would expect to find on s 2DG QSA. You might have to engage a researcher to help you with any paperwork for your man.
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2nd Dragoon Guards 8 years 9 months ago #45259

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Thanks IL.
I kind of assumed he would have been there but got myself muddled with the criteria for getting the clasps and the dates the 2nd arrived, didn't seem to marry up as I read it.
Many thanks though and I will do some more research but may well get someone with the final bits I can't find!
Dan.

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Hello Dan......

Here is what information I have on the unit.....

2nd Dragoon Guards, (Queen's Bays)

Period: Dec 1901 - May 1902
Operations: Boschman's Kop, NE ORC drives
Total Medals Issued: 614

Clasps: Cape Colony (610), Relief of Kimberly (1), Defence of Ladysmith (1), Tugela Heights (1), Paardeburg (1), Orange Free State (588), Relief of Ladysmith (1), Transvaal (558), Johannesburg (2), Lang's Nek (2), Diamond Hill (2), Wittebergen (1), Belfast (4), South Africa 1901 (543), South Africa 1902 (599)

Awards: 0 VC, 0 CB, 0 CMG, 0 DSO, 1 DCM
Casualties (officers): 3 KIA, 1 DOD, 5 wounded, 0 missing/prisoner
Casualties (men): 23 KIA, 18 DOD, 51 wounded, 0 missing/prisoner

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Hi Mike
Cheers for that, so the clasp set up etc is the most common to ones to the 2nd. And you have confirmed to me when they arrived in country. Do you know if any individual records survive anywhere? I have managed to find the medal rolls and the records for deceased soldiers effects. Just trying to now find out more about what he died of and where he was before S.A.
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Hello Dan

Try FindmyPast for service records.

However, for soldiers who died in service the papers were usually destroyed but some did escape, always worth checking.

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