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Hi all
The latest addition to my small Boer War memorabilia collection is the attached badge.
If any one has any information or suggestions as to where it could be researched more fully I would be very
grateful to hear.
Many thanks
Chris



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A rare button. This is the first one I have seen in nearly 50 years of collecting.

A brief mention appears in the South Wales Daily Post.


South Wales Daily Post, 21st December 1900

Already preparations are being made for the welcome home of the Swansea Volunteers returned from the war, for a Swansea tradesman is selling buttons at ½d. a-piece, with the words "Bravo, Swansea Volunteers, S. Africa," and the Borough Arms written thereon.

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Neville

Many thanks for this - much appreciated. I actually picked it up at a not very interesting antique centre and count myself lucky.
I'd certainly never seen it's like before and was delighted to be able to add it.
Kind regards

Chris

Chris,

Maggs Bros of Swansea placed this advertisement in the South Wales Daily Post on 3rd December 1900.

Gamjee's appears to have been a manufacturer and purveyor of "quack" medicines, such as "GAMJEE’S EAST INDIAN PILLS, or Blood Cleansers", which were claimed to "thoroughly Purify the Foulest Blood, Cure Indigestion, Bilious or Liver Complaints, Piles, Gravel, Wind, Restore Tone and Vigour to the most weakly constitution, and are the best in the world for all Female Irregularities".




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Neville
I have to admit that I was not particularly optimistic when I posted so you have far exceeded my expectations.
Thanks again
Chris

The returned Swansea members of the Volunteer Active Service Company, The Welsh Regiment, were presented with certificates, commemorating their service in South Africa.

Inscribed: "Given by the Town of Swansea, To the local men who Volunteered for Active Service, on their return from South Africa. 30th April, 1901. Corporal W.E. Williams".

The intention of the Corporation of Swansea to present certificates was announced during a civic banquet, held at the Royal Hotel, on 1 May 1901: The Mayor said, "it is the intention of the Corporation to present each man with an illuminated souvenir of the great events in which they have taken part, and these me- mentos will, I trust, always be to them a pleasant reminder of the noble duty they have performed, and that in the distant days their children will remember that their fathers did not hesitate to leave their homes and to risk their lives for the protection of the interests of their country" (The Cambrian, 3 May 1901).




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