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I have downloaded the roll -thanks for the hint but I cannot find a Lieut N.McKenzie on it as a member of RAAFFS Column so I have lost interest in the medal-thanks once again.

You should certainly go out and buy an example, perhaps not the one you mention, although, sadly these days it has become necessary to almost seek a mortgage to actually do so, it is certainly one of the most attractive medals ever made, the obverse of Her Majesty is, at least, realistic!

Georgegt351 wrote: I have always been interested in this medal and have never owned one in my nearly 50 years of being interested and collecting medals-I have always liked the design aspects of the medal even though the obverse is not the most flattering of Queen Vic. I have spotted a medal withe the Matabele 1893 reverse to a Lieut N McNamara of Raaffs Column can anybody verify this medal as Ancestry has not proved any use to me.

George,

There are 2 McNamaras on the roll but neither sound like your man.

Did you have a chance to examine the medal at all? It would be interesting to know about the naming.

The medal is on Ebay.US item 142815485535 and there are some good photo's of the naming-there is a comment that it came from a Wallis and Wallis auction in the 1990's and there was some alteration to the rank-although the photo's are quite good I couldn't quite make out if the rim was a bit thinner where the rank Lieut was engraved.

I am ultra conservative where this particular medal is concerned as I read somewhere there was a break-in at the Zimbabwe Mint many years ago and several un-named examples were stolen- can anybody confirm this story?

Georgegt351 wrote: I am ultra conservative where this particular medal is concerned as I read somewhere there was a break-in at the Zimbabwe Mint many years ago and several un-named examples were stolen- can anybody confirm this story?

George......

There is a member of our society here in Calgary who is a collector of this medal and was also a member of the BSAP when the theft of the un-named medals took place and he mentions that it was over 100 of the medals went missing but not from the mint but from a military office instead......

Mike

George,

I have not seen many examples of the naming of this medal to officers.



I checked the roll for N McKenzie and came up blank again.