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QSA (3) Cape Colony, Transvaal, Orange Free State (4623 Pte, F, Swindlehurst, 2-Dns,);
KSA (2) (4623 Pte, F, Swindlehurst, 2-Dns,) fixed suspenders, late issue impressed naming;
[ Great War medals ]

Frederick Swindlehurst attested into the 2nd (Royal Scots Greys) Dragoons and served in South Africa during the Boer War. His Boer War medal roll extracts note that he was discharged with ignominy and that his medals were forfeited, but later restored on 21 January 1929. He further attested into the Royal Field Artillery on 17 April 1911 under the pseudonym John Charles Brown, with regimental no. 64863 and served during the Great War on the Western Front with 190th Brigade from 10 September 1914. Advanced Bombardier, he was discharged as a consequence of sickness in March 1919 and awarded a Silver War Badge, No. 464113.