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Don't forget there was the "English Composite Cyclist Corps" which did SA service.....

Mike


The English Composite Cyclist Company which originally comprised of five officers and 103 other ranks, all were volunteers from most of the English infantry volunteer battalions (and a few Welsh), a separate Scottish Cyclist Company existed.

Mike
Many thanks for that info. I was not aware of those small units. It does make perfect sense that there could be a network of scouts and messengers within the regiments.

And you do realise that you have given me another couple of targets for QSAs!! LOL!
Cheers Steve

Also take a look at this....... Mike

www.angloboerwar.com/forum/21-uniforms-b...y-cyclist-corps#3523

That's a tidy badge Mike. And scarce I would imagine too.
It looks to me as if that one would be the slouch hat badge. The type I have bought with the medal a shoulder title.
I am also on the lookout for a title that is a row of four letter Cs in a partly scrolled style which I am guessing are collar badges. I have seen images of it but never seen one in the hand.
Am I on the right lines for where on the uniform they would have been worn?
And thanks again for the link, it all spreads the knowledge.
Cheers Steve

Browsing through some archive auction catalogues, I have found Rhodes' QSA as part of Lot 697 in the Sotheby's sale of the collection of the late Charles Lovell, M.B.E. on 16th November, 1978.
It sold for a hammer price of £95 along with another three QSAs to individuals who served in colonial outfits.
Oh! To have access to a time machine!!