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I notice that the Australian Mounted Pioneer Corps isn't listed

WO100/289 Folios 174-177
The majority are named to their parent unit. All retained their parent unit Regt Number. The following is the list of recipients that have the naming AUST MTD PNRS
4 CMR; 5 NSW; 4 RE; 1 Rifle Bde; 3 SAMR; 5 VMR; 2 WAMR; 1 Transport Conductor; 2 Officers Servants
One to the AMP (Victorian) sold on Ebay recently for A$3,150

Barry

Barry,

Thank you for identifying this omission. Do you have any information on the corps that I can add to my site?

Regards
David

David,

Sorry I cannot help you as there is no info on the AMP, the only place I have found it is in Reg Williams book Medals to Australia With Valuations. It is not listed in Times History of the War, Official Records of the Australian Military Contingents to the War in South Africa by Murray, Australia's Boer War by Craig Wilcox etc

Barry

If I recall correctly Colonel T.S. Parrott of the NSW Defence Force raised or commanded the unit but had a fascinating background from US Army experience to the Sudan in 1885. One of his sons was a Company Commander with the South Africans in WW1. Parrott himself resided in the Transvaal after the Boer War.

Cam.

csimpson wrote: If I recall correctly Colonel T.S. Parrott of the NSW Defence Force raised or commanded the unit but had a fascinating background from US Army experience to the Sudan in 1885. One of his sons was a Company Commander with the South Africans in WW1. Parrott himself resided in the Transvaal after the Boer War.
Cam.

Parrott's medal (I don't have it) is named to the Aust Mtd Pnr Corps
I do have the pair to 87 Pte M.J.Dew QSA clasps CC: OFS: Trans and the EVII Coro (bronze)one of the three South Australians whose medals were impressed AUS MTD PNR CPS

Barry