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Thanks David.
Apparently the file size was too big.
Correct about the clasps. .
New on this journey so any help is appreciated.
Cheers
Andy

Think my last message crossed with last of Dave F's. Attached is the page of the document I mentioned showing the page with Alexander Kindness on (third one down). It is findable on FindMyPast but not Ancestry. It apparently complicates matters as the Wittebergen box is blank but suspect the medal will show this was an oversight by the man who completed the form. At least his South African service dates agree with those shown on the service records supplied by Dave F.

Thanks David, I have been working with Ancestry and was going to move onto Find my past.
Andy

Andy – you queried whether any of the Kindness listed on the ABW Forum site might be relatives. As you pointed out they all served in S African units with the exception being 25270 J Kindness who served in the 19th (Lothian & Berwickshire) Company of the Imperial Yeomanry. You can find his attestation papers & service records on FMP – they show that although he enlisted in Edinburgh he was born in Grahamstown, Cape Colony, South Africa!

However, I did come across a James Kindness born in Aberdeen about 1864 who enlisted in the Scots Guards in 1886. By the time of the Boer War he had returned to civilian life and there he remained. Again you can find his attestation papers and service records (covering 12 years of home service) on FMP.

David.

Hi David,
I have been beavering away at the family tree and worked out who the James Kindness you had picked up. Even tracked down some photos, one in uniform and one with the family. I am pretty sure that is the QSA medal that he is wearing. I have not yet had a chance to try and track down what clasps he had. Now onto the others, I think I am tracking down the other Alexander and his brother George that were there at the same time, I think they were cousins or uncles, they all had the same name!! Thanks for the help, your details helped nail things down
Cheers
Andy

Andy
Looks like a single clasp QSA and a normal two clasp KSA to me.
Regards
IL.