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QSA (5) Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, South Africa 1901 (87 Pte. J. R. Prince. 14th Hussars) mounted on an attractive floral contemporary pin bar, unofficial rivets between top two clasps.

'A typical NCO of the 14th Hussars'

Source: www.angloboerwar.com/forum/19-ephemera/3...-jack?start=72#93574

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[ CMG ];
[ Ashantee Medal ];
SAGS (1) 1879 (Major F. S. Russell, 14th. Hussars.);
[ Prussian Order of the Crown First Class ]

Francis Shirley Russell was born in Scotland on 13 December 1840 and was educated at Radley and Balliol College, Oxford. He entered the 14th Hussars as a Cornet on 6 February 1863 and was appointed Aide-de-Camp to the Commander-in-Chief in Ireland in 1869. Attending Staff College in 1872, he saw special service during the Ashantee War from 17 December 1873 attached to Wood’s Regiment, and commanded the post of Accrofoomu on the line of communication (Medal with clasp and Brevet Major), and was appointed Instructor of Tactics at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in 1876.

Posted to the Intelligence Department, Russell served in South Africa during the latter part of the Zulu War as Deputy Assistant Adjutant General of the 2nd Division, and was present in the engagement at Ulundi (Medal with clasp), and then during the First Boer War. He was appointed Commanding Officer of the 1st Royal Dragoons, with the rank of Colonel, on 1 July 1885, before taking up an appointment as Military Attaché, Berlin, in 1889. Appointed a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1891, he later served as Brigadier-General commanding Aberdeen Defence Brigade from 1892, and was appointed Honorary Colonel of the 1st Royal Dragoons in 1900, being awarded the Prussian Order of the Crown First Class in 1903 by the Regiment’s Colonel in Chief, H.M. Kaiser Wilhelm II.

He died in the rank of Major-General on 18 March 1912.

Picture courtesy of Noonan's

QSA (6) Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (3781 Pte. G. Carl. 14/Hrs.) engraved naming;
[ KSA (2) ]

KSA listed on WO100/305p10