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Jon,

I always thought (and still do) that Sheppy's medal was excellent. The trouble with researching QSA clasps is that you end up coveting the wonderful combinations that chance and circumstance throw up

Jon
P257 Ranger Louis Alfred Turpin enl Pretoria 240401 and Discharged 41001 at own request. Cannot find a SHEPPY. I see on the Biggins Roll for DofK that SHEPPY was a Cattle Ranger. It is possible that that rank was one held in the ASC and that he was not actually a member of the CofCR.
Thanks to all for the comments on Sayer's medals.
Regards
IL.

Morning guys

Sheppy EF - ASC roll WO100/216p98, rank "Cattle Ranger" entitled to DoK clasp only.

On Bill Friars' site this week there is a Cape of Good Hope GSM (clasp - Bechuanaland) to EF Sheppy Diamond Fields Artillery - same man?

I checked on eggsa.org and there is a tablet in a crematorium in Durban to an Edgar Sheppy died 1960 aged 86 years - right sort of age, - same man?

Putting "Edgar Sheppy" into NASA you get three hits for :

Reminiscences by Edgar Sheppy of experiences during the
siege of Kimberley, narrated to Mrs. P Jourdan; also Mrs.
Sheppy's diary of the siege. Kimberley, 1899, 1900. 27, 37
pp. (MSS. Afr. s. 102).

- same man?

There are other hits for "EF Sheppy" that could be him to.

It is interesting he appears on the CCR medal roll - an afterthought judging by the entry, but why? His experiences of the siege may give a clue as to what he did after the siege of Kimberley was lifted.

Regards
Meurig

LinneyI wrote: Jon
P257 Ranger Louis Alfred Turpin enl Pretoria 240401 and Discharged 41001 at own request. Cannot find a SHEPPY. I see on the Biggins Roll for DofK that SHEPPY was a Cattle Ranger. It is possible that that rank was one held in the ASC and that he was not actually a member of the CofCR.
Thanks to all for the comments on Sayer's medals.
Regards
IL.

Interested members
I had a look on the nominal roll of the CofCR on this site and no Sheppy; unless I missed it. There seems to be no Ranger number quoted for him. The author of the Corps of Cattle Rangers booklet comments that "records are patchy" and he IDs 520 members. Any idea of how many "afterthoughts" or additions there might be?
Meurig, any confirmation on my suggesting that the title "Cattle Ranger" might be an ASC rank?
Regards
IL.

Thanks for all the input on Sheppy.

His QSA with the rank of "Cattle Ranger" and Defence of Kimberley clasp were indeed issued off the A.S.C. roll. I agree with Ian that this is a rank that was peculiar to the A.S.C. This rank must have been in existence prior to the forming of the Cattle Rangers.
I have attached the copy of the Corps of Cattle Rangers supplementary roll for info with him on it. It would appear that his name was noted just for info perhaps?

I have the copy of his reminiscenses of the Kimberley siege, which don't go beyond the siege, as well as a Who Who entry for 1908. No mention is made of any prior service about from the Boer War.

Jon
Thanks for the extra page. It does appear that this was just a matter of tidying up the paperwork.
REgards
IL.