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Acknowledgement must go to this forum to making the reunification possible. David Cottrell put an appeal out on the ABW Forum for his grandfather Reginald's medals nearly seven years ago. I picked his appeal thread a few months ago while searching the internet.
It just goes to show, never give up hope!
Cheers Steve

Another photograph of two of Loch's Horse aboard ship on embarkation for South Africa.


Taken from "Under the Union Jack".

Picture courtesy of Noonan's

BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (0) (Troopr. R. Lowens-Elliott. M.R.F.);
QSA (2) Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Lieut: R. L. Elliott. Loch’s Horse.)

Richard Lowens Elliott was born in Hackney, London, around July 1871. He attested into Bechuanaland Border Police and served as a Trooper with ‘G’ Troop, Matabeleland Relief Force that was raised by Dr. Leander Starr Jameson for his ill-planned invasion of the Boer Transvaal Republic. He was captured when Jameson’s outnumbered force was compelled to surrender to the Boers on 2 January 1896.

Returning to England, he was commissioned into Loch’s Horse for service in South Africa during the Boer War. Raised by Lord Loch in February 1900, with a combined strength of 220, during their twelve months’ service ‘they shared in the advance from Bloemfontein to the Transvaal as part of the 8th Corps of Mounted Infantry commanded by Colonel Ross of the Durham Light Infantry, the Brigadier being Colonel Henry. The 8th Corps were part of the advance guard or screen to the centre of Lord Roberts’ army, and had a lot of scouting skirmishing in the northward march. Colonel Henry’s men, including the 1st and 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles, South Australians, Tasmanians, Lumsden’s Horse, Loch’s Horse, and the 4th Mounted Infantry Regulars, were among the first to cross the Vaal, and had very stiff fighting before the infantry got up, particularly at the mines in the neighbourhood of Vereeniging, about Elandsfontein, and outside Pretoria. Their work was highly praised by the Generals and by the correspondents.’ (The Colonials in South Africa, refers).

He died in England on 5 September 1925, aged 59.

The Jameson Raid pair to Lieutenant Elliott sold on Wednesday for a hammer price of GBP 3,000. Total GBP 3,864. R 87,620. AUD 7,610. NZD 8,390. CAD 6,930. USD 4,810. EUR 4,410.