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Hi Mike, thank you for the information. I am now on my way to the OMRS website to look up the article. DNW certainly have a number of QSA's to war correspondents coming up in July.

gavmedals,

You can find that information here: www.angloboerwar.com/other-information/1...1-war-correspondents

I know it's not the same period but I was getting some items ready for Echo Bay and found this.....

Mike

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QSA (0) (Mr. H. Mockford. “Reuter.”)

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QSA (0) (Mr. F. Ireland. “Daily News.”) officially re-impressed naming

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, June 2002.

Mr. Frank Ireland, a former Editor of the Coventry Standard, went to South Africa before the Boer War and became one of the Daily News correspondents at its outbreak. Afterwards he joined the staff of the Diamond Fields Advertiser and became its Editor in 1910. The Daily News was amalgamated, in 1930, with the Daily Chronicle to form the News Chronicle.

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QSA (0) (Mr: W. Martindale. “Central News”)

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 2010 £800.

Mr W. Martindale, one of 4 war correspondents from the Central News, is known to have suffered and recovered from enteric fever whilst covering events during the war in South Africa.