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Something I've never seen on a man's papers before (see below)

Walker's name and details do not appear on Palmer's Casualty roll and yet, his WIA is clear for all to see. I have just acquired his QSA with clasps CC/TH/RoL/TVL/OFS.

No wounds are pleasant but this one must have been quite debilitating.



Regards

Rory

Rory - It is unusual to have the specifics of a wound on a man's papers but it's very useful if, as in your case, the man isn't listed in the casualty roll. I have a few, notably a DCM/QSA/KSA group to 4696 Gnr. C. Miller, 19th Bty. RFA who, like Walker, isn't listed in the casualty roll but his papers confirm he was wounded in the back at 'Potgieter's Drift' (i.e. Vaal Krantz).

David

A splendid group you have there David. I quite envy you. Although a late convert to a specific "theme", I'm rather fixated on anything Ladysmith related - both defence and relief.

This is the first time that I have seen , in writing, on a man's papers, the effects of Boer shell-fire on the advancing British troops. It's normally just a "wounded on 24 February 1900" or, if one is lucky, a Wounded in the right thigh" - rare to see the effects of a Boer shell being described thus.

Regards

Rory