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Hi Koops and welcome to the forum. It's perfectly possible to have genuine engraved naming on a QSA to the Rifle Brigade and a number of other units too. I have an example in my collection. Could you please post a link to the item for further assessment as I can't locate it on eBay?

David

If you type in" boer war medals" it is to a Pte Fairbrass 6 bar Qsa and his 1914-15 trio .The starting bid is £185.00 buy it now £275..

The naming looks fine to me but there is a discrepancy with his number. On the main QSA roll page the 3 in 3466 has been amended by hand to 9466 and on the supplementary roll (for the SA01 clasp) it shows 9466 but with the incorrect initial R. At some point he transferred to 1/Manchester Regiment and appears on that roll (with number 9466 but incorrect initial T) as qualifying for the Belfast clasp as well as he does on the Rifle Brigade roll. All the clasps are confirmed on the rolls.

Hope this helps.

David

Thanks very much David .I've been caught out In the past so thought it best to ask the experts.
Thanks ,
Paul

Picture courtesy of Aubrey's

Queen's Sudan (3443 Pte C. Gibson 2/ R. Bde);
QSA (2) Defence of Ladysmith, Belfast (3443 Pte C. Gibson. Rifle Brigade);
KSA (2) (3443 Pte C. Gibson. Rifle Brigade);
Khedive’s Sudan (1) Khartoum, unnamed as issued.

Picture courtesy of Aubrey's

Queen's Sudan (1986 Pte George Offord 2/R. Bde);
QSA (5) Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing's Nek (1986 Pte George Offord Rifle Brigade);
KSA (2) (1986 Pte George Offord Rifle Brigade);
Khedive’s Sudan (1) Khartoum (1986 Pte George Offord 2nd R Bde)