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I will stay with the story from The Sheffield Daily Telegraph even if my chap is not counted amongst the "brave fellows". He was already on his way to South Africa by the 5th October with the clever blokes in the Veterinary Department.

I was trying to work out when the 11th Hussars landed in SA and when they arrived in Ladysmith

A few snippets from The Times:

6th July 1899



28th July 1899



11th August (2 entries)





31st October



7th February 1900

The 11th Hussars earned 75 DoL clasps from 114 medals.

If you want the answer, check out the KSA roll. Before I gave up the various dates for embarking for South Africa are
4/10/99
5/10/99
15/2/00
25/2/00
1/3/00
3/3/00

Thank you to both Davids for an interesting record of troop movements. Deploying the army in Victoria's Empire was evidently a complex task!
Regards
Brett

Looking again at the QSAs to the 11th Hussars in light of Meurig's post, here is the list of 114 names that I have for this unit:

1 Abadie, Lieutenant Harry Bertram
2 Allen, 4226 Private L
3 Anderson, Lieutenant Rowland J P
4 Baker, 4166 Private J
5 Baker, 4169 Private J
6 Batchelor, 3562 Private E
7 Black, 3936 Private A
8 Bletcher, 3945 Farrier Sergeant R F
9 Blowes, 3671 Private J
10 Brigden, 3684 Private J G
11 Buckland, 3887 Private G
12 Bunyan, 3701 Private J
13 Burns, 4186 Private A
14 Burrows, 4146 Private J
15 Bush, 3839 Private H
16 Caghill, 4085 Private G
17 Challis, 3610 Private A W
18 Chalmers, 3873 Private J
19 Charlton, 3957 Private C P L
20 Clarke, 4052 Private A J
21 Cole, 4174 Private J
22 Coombs, 3969 Private J
23 Cubben, 3763 Private J
24 Davidson, 3771 Private C W
25 Davies, 4255 Private A
26 Doggett, 3802 Private J
27 Dunn, 3163 Private F
28 Dyke, 4466 Private H
29 Eldridge, 3194 Squadron QM Sergeant E
30 Eltringham, 4208 Private A R
31 Finnie, 4209 Private William
32 Fitzgerald, Lieutenant Percy D
33 Foster, 3832 Private F G
34 Freeman, 3035 Private F
35 Freeman, 3675 Private F
36 Garrett, 3539 Private F
37 Germany, 4254 Private F
38 Giles, 3835 Private A J
39 Goodwin, 4017 Private C. DNW Mar 1996
40 Green, 3291 Private W
41 Gunn, 4026 Private W G
42 Haigh, 3829 Private J
43 Hale, 3617 Private F
44 Halliday, Lieutenant John A
45 Harrison, Major Esme Stuart Erskine. DNW Apr 2006
46 Hatfield, 3864 Private A
47 Hibbert, 4105 Private T
48 Hicks, 3779 Private G
49 Hobson, 2458 Private H
50 Hodson, 4096 Private T W
51 Holley, 3512 Private E F
52 Holmes, 2954 Private Joseph
53 Holmes, 3822 Private W
54 Houston, 3896 Private J
55 Howie, 2770 Private W
56 Humphries, 3391 Saddler G
57 Hunt, 3773 Private H H
58 Ives, 3354 Private J
59 Jenkinson, 3911 Private E
60 Kennedy, 3606 Private L J
61 Kewley, 3923 Private A
62 Knowles, 3741 Private C
63 Lea, 3994 Private A
64 Lewis, 2639 Lance Corporal W. DNW Jun 2014
65 Longden, 3730 Lance Corporal F
66 Lowe, 3996 Private L S
67 May, 3882 Private F
68 Mayne, 3520 Private T
69 McDonald, 3836 Shoeing Smith J
70 McDonald, 3731 Private P
71 McIntyre, 2836 Regimental QM Sergeant W
72 Mellor, 3941 Private G W
73 Miller, 3872 Private N
74 Mitchell, 4159 Private L
75 Moore, 3451 Private J. DNW Jul 2015
76 Mulliner, 2638 Staff Sergeant Farrier R
77 Nelson, 4074 Farrier Sergeant J
78 Nesbitt, 3084 Private John
79 Newsom, 4132 Private B. DNW Dec 2000
80 Notting, 3457 Sergeant A
81 Noyes, 3181 Sergeant T G R E
82 Ogle, 3782 Private R J
83 Paget, Second Lieutenant Albert E S L
84 Parker, 3959 Private G
85 Pitman, Captain Thomas Tait
86 Proctor, 3868 Private I
87 Pye, 4164 Private R W
88 Reeves, 3164 Corporal G
89 Reid, 3642 Private G
90 Robinson, 4150 Private W G
91 Roycroft, 3530 Private W
92 Rycroft, Major William Henry
93 Searle, 3932 Lance Corporal F
94 Searle, 3125 Private H F
95 Shaw, 3925 Private T H
96 Snape, 4099 Lance Corporal S. DNW Sept 2016
97 Stirrett, 3934 Private C
98 Sykes, 2459 Private T
99 Tower, 4033 Private E
100 Tustin, 3928 Private F
101 Vaudry, 4076 Shoeing Smith W
102 Von Essen Moberly, Lieutenant Cuthbert
103 Wakefield, 3399 Private W
104 Watson, 3851 Private W
105 Wheeling, 2011 Lance Corporal A
106 Whitehead, 3904 Private J
107 Whiting, 3620 Private C
108 Williams, 3962 Private 0
109 Wilson, 4221 Private J
110 Wilson, 4033 Private T
111 Wolfe, 3809 Private W S
112 Woodley, 3631 Private T
113 Wright, 3449 Private W
114 Wright, 4175 Private W

The following two examples show that this list is incomplete:

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (2869 Shg. Sth. P. Rawsthorne, 11th Hussars)

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Belfast (2992 Pte. T. Stannard, 11th Hussars)

The 11th Hussars roll is in WO100/116.

Rawsthorne's QSA is listed on WO100/234p72 and Stannard's on WO100/234p73.

The three roll page headers below contain medals named to the 11th Hussars but this would not be expected given where the pages were indexed in WO100 and how the header is written.










The roll for the 11th Hussars in WO100/116 makes the naming of the medals easier to determine:



The QSA and KSA to Major W R Codrington, 11th Hussars attached ILH, make for interesting research. The medals are named:

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Relief of Mafeking, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Bt: Major. W. R. Codrington, 11/Hrs:);
King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Major. W. R. Codrington. 11/Hrs.);

All of his listings are on the ILH rolls but Woolwich were able to name both medals to the 11th Hussars.










A copy of his ILH supplementary QSA roll also appears in the 11th Hussars's role at WO100/116p305.

These example suggest there must have been a list of units and names that transcended the medal rolls we see and that guided those naming the medals to deviate from the rolls. An earlier post in this thread provides one example of this information.