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BSACM reverse Rhodesia 1896 (1) Mashonaland 1897 (146 Troopr. W. J. Paul. B.S.A.P.);
QSA (5) Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (9167 Pte. W. J. Paul. Th'Croft's M.I.),;
[ KSA (2) ]

His entry in Steinaecker’s Horsemen by the late Bill Woolmore gives further detail:

'PAUL, WILLIAM JOHNSON, Trooper No 1527; Born Scotland on 19th September 1873.

He served in both the 1896 and 1897 Campaigns in Rhodesia with the Mashonaland Mounted Police (1 year) and the British South Africa Police (1 year and 7 days) and earned the British South Africa Company’s Medal with clasp for the service.

Previous Anglo-Boer War service as Private 9167 in D Company of Thorneycroft’s Mounted Infantry from 23rd December 1899 to 9th November 1900.

Enlisted in Steinaeckers Horse at Pietersmaritzburg on 12th October 1901. A Baker, aged 28, height 5 foot 9 1/2, blue eyes, fair hair. Next of Kin: Mother, 19 St Leonards, Scotland. Discharged time expired at PMB on 12th July 1902 after the cessation of hostilities.'

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BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (0) (Tpr. C. Philpot, Salisbury Fld. Fce.);
QSA (3) Cape Colony, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (1075 Serjt: C. Philpott. Prince Alf: Vol: Gd:).

Chris Dixon is offering a BSACM, Rhodesia 1896, to Trooper J A Raubenheimer, Gifford's Horse. The description says there are contact marks, possible from other medals,

On the QSA roll are a handful of men of this surname including one A J Raubenheimer. He was in the National Scouts but his medal was returned.

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BSACM for Matabeleland 1893 (0) (1849 Troopr J. Cann. B. B. Police);
QSA (3) Relief of Mafeking, Defence of Kimberley, Orange Free State (1118 Cpl J. Cann Kimberley Vol. Regt.);
1914-15 Star (Cpl. J. Cann S.A.E.C.);
BWM (Sjt. J. Cann. S.A.V.R.);
AVM (bilingual) (Sjt. J. Cann. S.A.E.C.);
Kimberley Star 'a'

Sold with copied Rolls, Kimberley Rifles brass cap badge (no lugs) two KR brass titles, 8 Kimberley Rifles buttons. St John Ambulance Association brass badge engraved 340137 John Cann and St John Ambulance Brigade cap badge.

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BSACM, reverse Rhodesia 1896, (0) (Lieut. G. D. Wheeler. R.A.);
QSA (2) Natal, Transvaal (Capt. G. D. Wheeler. R.G.A.) engraved naming, minor official correction to surname;
KSA (2) (Capt. G. D. Wheeler. R.A.) engraved naming;
BWM 1914-20 (Major G. D. Wheeler.)
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Guy Danvers Wheeler was born at Illawara, New South Wales, in 1868 and in 1886 was awarded the Royal Humane Society’s Medal for saving life on Lake Geneva at Lausanne on 12 August 1886 (R.H.S. Case no. 23,274). He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery on 27 January 1892, and was promoted Lieutenant on 27 January 1895, and Captain on 1 January 1900. He served in both the operation is Rhodesia in 1896, where he was in charge of the Maxim Guns as part of Colonel Plumer’s force, and in South Africa during the Boer War with the 10th Mountain Battery. He was taken Prisoner of War at Nicholson’s Nek on 30 October 1899, and later released, and for his services in South Africa he was Mentioned in Despatches (LG 29 July 1902).

Following the outbreak of the Great War he was commissioned temporary Major, Royal Field Artillery, on 22 November 1915 and served with them on the Western Front from February 1917.

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BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (1) Mashonaland 1897 (4103 Pte. J. Edwards, 7th Huss.);
QSA (5) Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4103 Pte. J. Edwards. 7th Hussars.)

John Edwards was born at East Butterwick, Lincolnshire, and enlisted for the 7th Hussars at Grimsby on 8 December 1893, aged 20, a fisherman by trade. He served abroad in India from September 1894 to 12 October 1895, then in Natal until November 1898; and in South Africa from 20 November 1901 to 11 July 1902. He otherwise served at Home including the Army Reserve from September 1902 until December 1905.