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QSA (6) Talana, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivets between fifth and sixth clasps (81439 Sejt. J. Woods, 69: B, R.F.A.)

Listed on WO100/142p213 and WO100/142p221.

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QSA (6) Cape Colony, Talana, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (6461 Pte. C. Emery. Rl: Dublin Fus:);
KSA (2) (6461 Pte. C. Emery. Rl: Dublin Fus:);
[ Great War medals ]


Charles Emery was born in Sheerness, Kent, on 2 January 1884 and attested for the Royal Dublin Fusiliers as a Boy soldier on 2 September 1898, aged 14 years and 8 month, a musician by trade. He served with the 2nd Battalion in South Africa from 24 December 1898 to 11 February 1902, and then in India from 12 February 1902 to 8 November 1903. Promoted Sergeant on 16 January 1912, he saw further service with the 1st Battalion during the Great War in the Gallipoli theatre of War from 25 April 1915, presumably alighting from the River Clyde, and was wounded by gun shot in May 1915, being admitted to hospital. Recovering, he re-joined the front, and was killed in action on 30 June 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey.

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QSA (1) Talana (5317 Pte. W. Maher, Rl. Dublin Fus:)

Regimental History says wounded, Talana, 20 October 1899. Not listed on the Casualty Roll for Talana. Died of enteric, Estcourt, 8 March 1900.

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QSA (3) Talana, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, clasp carriage re-constituted to add the Talana clasp (6765 Pte. T. Ward, Rl. Dublin Fus:) initial officially corrected

Thomas Ward was born in Dublin in 1877 and attested there for the Royal Dublin Fusiliers on 18 May 1896. He served with the 2nd Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War, and was slightly wounded by gun shot to the foot at Colenso on 15 December 1899, and was again wounded by gun shot to the arm and knee at Hart’s Hill on 24 February 1900. He was invalided on 31 March 1900 and was discharged, medically unfit, on 6 October 1900.