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QSA with RoK, Paard, Drie, Joburg, DH & KSA with SA01, SA02 named to 26646 Dvr. A. G. Willis RHA

Alfred George Willis a 19-year-old laborer from Islington who enlisted into the Royal Horse Artillery at Dalston in 1898. He served in south Africa from October 1899 until November 1902, and was discharged in 1910. He was taken prisoner of war at Uitval's Nek on the 11th of July 1900. While in South Africa, Willis took part in the expedition to Koodosberg Drift in beginning of February 1900, and in the relief of Kimberley, and in the subsequent advances to Bloemfontein and Pretoria. A section was with a squadron of the Scots Greys and the Lincolns in the disaster at Nitral's or Uitval Nek, 11th July 1900 when the guns were lost. Early in July 1900 the post at Uitval's Nek in the Megaliesberg Mountains, was taken over from Baden-Powell's force by a squadron of the Royal Scots Greys, five companies of the Lincolnshire Regiment, and two guns O Battery, RHA, the whole under Colonel H R Roberts. On 11th July the enemy in great numbers attacked the position, and "owing mainly to the defective dispositions of the commanding officer, the enemy gained possession of the pass and captured the two guns, almost an entire squadron of the Scots Greys, and 90 officers and men of the Lincolnshire Regiment, including Colonel Roberts, who had been wounded early in the day".