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Thanks Henk, you must have an amazing collection!

Thanks to you all for thanks : in especially the 1970's to the 1990's I was medal-wise often at the right place at the right time. In the few years between marriages , with no third eye watching the finances, I even for a few months had a third bond on my house to buy an excellent Boer War Collection!!
Here is another 8-bar QSA : again to my favourite unit.
In the SAFF Casualty Roll , Sgt B J Webber is shown as KiA on 25 Nov. 1900 at Groenfontein. The location of his grave is not given in Steve Watt's "In Memoriam".
I bought the QSA in August 1980, and it was only some 2 years ago that I found out what had happened to Webber



In his book “With Rimington” Captain L March Phillipps, writing from Frankfort, states on p 206 that his last diary entry was for 20 Nov 1900, as “each day’s events became monotonous”.
However, on page 207 he describes an incident that took place a few days later
]….we were camped on the river and had a picket on the other side. Two or three Boers crept up the river right between our picket and the main body, and then walked straight to the picket as if coming from us and fired into it at point-blank range. They mortally wounded one of our men and in the dusk escaped.
In the early 1900’s there were 2 farms named Groenfontein in the Frankfort District, both bordering the Vaal River. It is not known on which of the two Sgt Webber was killed.
Henk

Good Morning Henk.......

Again a great medal.......

Do you keep track of the Damant's Horse?......

I have one if you wish the information.......

Mike

Hello Henk

Splendid medal.

What is the unit on the medal, did it get renamed to "Rimington" or "Remington" as in the case of my example ?

Regards
Meurig