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A stunning medal to Moneypenny Adrian - more so as it is named to the ILH and could, just as easily have been named to a war correspondent.

That has always eluded me - correspondent's medals to Imperial publications are not that hard to find, but I am looking for a South African one.

Rory

It's been a good year for me so it's difficult to choose just one acquisition. However, I've gone for a single QSA with the unusual single clasp Laing's Nek to 1375 Pte. J. Wildman, Royal Lancaster Regt. It's a verified single clasp medal and in superb conditon.

Single battle clasps sometimes indicate a casualty David - was he one?

Hi all

Some lovely medals are listed already. But an acquisition I was pleased with is that to B. Q. M. Sgt. J. J. Egerton.

He received the Afghanistan Medal, with the clasps for Peiwar Kotal, Charasia and Kabul (6802 Gr. J. J. Egerton. G/3rd. R.A.) [Engraved] and the Queen's Medal with the clasps Talana and Defence of Ladysmith (13284. B. Q. M. Sgt J. J. Egerton, 67th Bty., R.F.A.).

Rory mentioned casualties. Egerton served as a Gunner with the G/3rd, Royal Artillery, in Afghanistan in 1878-1880 until he was invalided home in 1881. In South Africa he saw action at the Battle of Talana in 1899, where the 67th Battery apparently fired some of the the first shells of the Boer War, as well as serving in the Defence of Ladysmith. He died of disease at Ladysmith during the siege on 27 January 1900.

Best regards Peter

Fantastic pair that Peter. Egerton would slot in very nicely with the DSO group I posted at the start of this thread - Du Port was also 67th Battery at Talana.

When I saw the name Egerton, I thought for a moment that it was the chap from HMS Powerful after whom a suburb in Ladysmith is named.

Regards

Rory

Rory wrote: Single battle clasps sometimes indicate a casualty David - was he one?

No he wasn't a casualty Rory.