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Hi Wayne...…

Are you keeping track of 10th and 15th members...… If you are here are a couple...…

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McKINNEL, S. C. (Stanley Colin)
REG. NO.: 23597
RANK: TROOPER
REGT: 38th COMPANY, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, 10th BATTALION, IMPERIAL YEOMANRY
BARS: CAPE COLONY, ORANGE FREE STATE, TRANSVAAL, SOUTH AFRICA 1901

REMARKS / HISTORY:
1. KINGS SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL, USUAL TWO BARS (re Named self awarded)
2. 1914 - 1918 WAR MEDAL, INTERALLIED VICTORY MEDAL, 16456 PRIVATE S. C. McKINNEL, 7th BATTALION C.E.F.
3. McKINNEL CONFIRMED ON FIRST CONTINGENT BOOK, PAGE 91.


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GARDNER, CHRISTOPHER
REG. NO: 10225
REGT: 56th COMPANY, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, 15th BATTALION, IMPERIAL YEOMANRY
BARS: CAPE COLONY, ORANGE FREE STATE, TRANSVAAL

REMARKS / HISTORY:
1. NATAL REBELLION, BAR 1906, - UMVOTI MOUNTED RIFLES
2. W.W. 1 PAIR - 172370 GUNNER C.R. GARDENER, ROYAL ARTILLERY

Hope that this is of some help.....

Mike

Wayne,

Gaskell's book is like a first full draft of the text. As you suggest, it would have been possible to add a lot more detail; photographs ( I wonder whatever happened to the photos he talks about in the text, presumably they survived along with his letters/diary?), maps, chapter titles, roll, honours and awards, an index ...

Your idea is excellent. Sounds like an ideal lockdown activity

The following book was written by a member of 37th Company.

Best wishes, Justin

Hello LINNELL,
The medal entitlement for C. Linnell is Queens South Africa with clasps for Cape Colony (The soldiers landed at the Cape), Orange Free State, Transvaal and 1901. A major action for 1st Contingent of 10th Bn was at Lindley 01/06/1900 not long after arriving. Major Lawson heard the news of the cut-off 13th Battalion (Irish Yeomanry) and gathered the men and left at short notice to dash to the rescue to Linley. The 13th had surrendered 2 hours before the 10th IY arrived and were being escorted away. The Boer fighters had left snipers in the town of Lindley to delay the chase and it was a close run thing that Lawson did not catch the Boer column. At Lindley the 10th lost around 6 KIA plus others wounded. Although they failed to rescue the 13th it was seen as a positive action and Major Willie Lawson was awarded a DSO. However overall it was a disaster that 13th Battalion had surrendered and it sent shock waves back to Britain. After this defeat the Yeomanry were relegated to escort work for much of the rest of their year. The regular army units did not fair much better against the Boer fighters but they seemed to clutch at any reason to justify a failure and if there were Yeomanry involved then they capitalised on the lack of training given the Yeomanry. Just my opinion but there were so many failures that it seemed wrong to apportion blame. Its true the IY lacked training but they learnt an awful lot very quickly and added mobility and numbers.
I have a very limited knowledge as I only follow two IY Battalions! So need to do a load more reading.
Thanks for the "heads-up" on the book Justin.
Wayne