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Many thanks, David, for your very comprehensive response. I will get my brother to look through any family memorabilia relating to this, and will comment again if he finds anything relevant

OK - I have had a reply from my brother who has the shell casing and a carved pig! He says "POM POM SHELL CASE: The shell casing inscription reads: " Picked up behind the guns at Undersfontein, while in action with a part of Delarey's Commando by Rowland.W.Alderson, R.A.C.C., P.A.S.I.73rd Imperial Yeomanry Paget's Horse, who was killed in Action at Trenafontein, January 21st 1902. Boer War 1899-1902."

The pig has a silver collar. The silver collar reads "Rowland.W.Alderson. Kaffir Pig 1901" (He adds: "Collar applied in England posthumously")

I will endeavour to attach the photos...

Further to the thread relating to my great-uncle R.W.Alderson, I have the engraved shell case photos now from my brother (Trenafontein); also photos of a kaffir pig with engraved silver collar. I also now have the three slugs which apparently killed him, in front of me.
I tried to upload the photos, but even one was too big. Do you have Whatsapp? I could send them through on that? Then you could put them on the forum if they are of any interest. Let me know.
Mark (Gauntlet)

Mark - photos need to be less than 500Kb to load - what I do for oversize photos is right click on them which produces a dropdown menu with "Resize Image" half way down - left clicking on that I then take the width down to about 1400 pixels which usually works and does not seem to affect image quality when posted. Hope that is clearer than mud - David.

Please find attached photos of the bullets which (allegedly) led to the demise of my great-uncle R.W.Alderson on 21 January 1902 at Trenafontein.









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Gauntlet
Well, they are not jacketed rifle bullets (.303" or 7mm). Some dimensions/weight would assist. Given the hollow bases, they are most probably a .455" Mk. 11/III revolver projectiles; weight 265 grains for the Mk.11 and 219 grains for the Mk.111. Both types feature a hollow bases to ensure engagement in the short pistol barrels. The intent of the lead .455" revolver projectiles (as well as similar types), fired at about 600 fps, was to expand upon impact. Note that the projectiles exhibit different degrees of expansion.
More details needed to be certain.
Regards
IL.