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A small unit of 54 men.

Addison, Trooper . SAGS (1) 1879
Addison, Captain F. SAGS (1) 1879
Bannick, Trooper . SAGS (1) 1879
Bond, Trooper . SAGS (1) 1879
Boyce, Trooper J. SAGS (1) 1879
Boyce, Trooper L. SAGS (1) 1879
Brown, Trooper H M. SAGS (1) 1879
Brunner, Sergeant . SAGS (1) 1879
Buckley, Trooper . SAGS (1) 1879
Burms, Trooper . SAGS (1) 1879
Burne, Trooper . SAGS (1) 1879
Champneys, Trooper . SAGS (1) 1879
Colenbrander, Trooper . SAGS (1) 1879
Colenbrander, Trumpeter J W. SAGS (1) 1879
Davidson, Corporal . SAGS (1) 1879
Dickens, Trooper . SAGS (1) 1879
Dickson, Trooper . SAGS (1) 1879
Dinglax, Sergeant . SAGS (1) 1879
Dore, Trooper . SAGS (1) 1879
Fayle, Sergeant . SAGS (1) 1879
Freeman, Trooper . SAGS (1) 1879
Gielink, Trooper A B. SAGS (1) 1879
Gielink, Trooper C. SAGS (0)
Gielink, Trooper G (J W). SAGS (1) 1879
Gielink, Corporal J. SAGS (1) 1879
Glenn, Trooper . SAGS (1) 1879
Green, Trooper . SAGS (1) 1879
Hoogvorst, Trooper A. SAGS (1) 1879
Hoogvorst, Trooper J (C). SAGS (1) 1879
Hoogvorst, Trooper P. SAGS (1) 1879
Howard, Trooper P. SAGS (1) 1879
Howe, Trooper . SAGS (1) 1879
Jackson, Trooper A E. SAGS (1) 1879
Jacobs, Trooper . SAGS (1) 1879
Jacoh, Trooper . SAGS (1) 1879
John, Trooper . SAGS (1) 1879
Jones, Surgeon . SAGS (1) 1879
Knox, Quatermaster . SAGS (1) 1879
Louw, Trooper J. SAGS (1) 1879
Louw, Trooper J (Jacob). SAGS (1) 1879
Lyle, Trooper . SAGS (1) 1879
McClintock, Trooper . SAGS (1) 1879
Moore, Sergeant Major . SAGS (1) 1879
Moore, Trooper . SAGS (1) 1879
Neish, Trooper . SAGS (1) 1879
Phring, Trooper . SAGS (1) 1879
Robbins, Corporal . SAGS (1) 1879
Robbins, Trooper W (Jas). SAGS (1) 1879
Rogers, Saddler Sergeant . SAGS (1) 1879
Shuter, Lieutenant . SAGS (1) 1879
Toohey, Trooper . SAGS (1) 1879
Warren, Lieutenant . SAGS (1) 1879
Warren, Trooper C. SAGS (1) 1879
Warren, Trooper W. SAGS (1) 1879


Picture courtesy of Noonan's

SAGS (1) 1879, riveted above privately engraved clasps for ‘Ghinghehlovo, 3 April 1879’ and ‘Inyezane, 22 Jany. 1879’ (Corpl. Robbins, Stanger Md. Rifles)

James Robbins, a mechanic from Umhlali, and a member of the Stanger Mounted Rifles, actually served in the Natal Volunteer Guides and was present at the battle of Inyezane on 22 January 1879 and the action at Ghinghelovo on 3 April 1879, on which latter occasion he was severely wounded. A small unit of some 55 men, the Natal Volunteer Guides largely comprised men drawn from the Stanger and Victoria Mounted Rifles (For God, Queen and Colony, by Terry Sole, refers.)

Hi David
The topic heading should be Stanger, not Stranger

Regards

Thank you, Adrian. I have corrected that.

Hi David,
I see this thread is already over a year old ... so please ignore if need be.

I am trying to get the facts 100% correct ... and this might help all of us ...
We (the NMR Museum) have recently received original correspondence files of Isipingo Mounted Rifles and the Original diary of the Commanding Officer of the IMR ... from formation in 1878 to disbandment in 1882. In a post conflict Report to the Volunteer Office 16 Dec 1879, Capt Stainbank writes "March 24th I crossed into Zululand with our Quartermaster [Bower] and 27 men and served through the campaign as “Natal Guides” with the Stanger Mounted Rifles under Captain Addison."
It seems the IMR may have made up half or more of the NVG. What I am looking for is a list of the names of all the NVG members.
Regards
Wray
NMR Museum

Hello Wray

Herewith from the late Terry Sole's For God, Queen and Colony. I have the medal to Francis Galloway of the Victoria Mounted Rifles.

I also have the medal to Edmund Glanville Pugh of the Isipingo M.R. and would be very interested if you could please look for any reference to him in the papers/diary you have now received.

I think Stainbank's reference to 27 men refers to the entire contingent, not merely the handful of I.M.R. chaps with them.



Regards

Rory

Hi Rory,
Thank you so much for this document. And thank you for throwing light on this ... just goes to show how important sentence structure is!

We are still working through all these documents but in a very un-thorough search and I see your Edmund Pugh on a Muster Roll for Dec 1879 and then in Stainbanks diary in Feb 1879.
Does he have the clasp? He is not on the attached medal list written by Capt Stainbank to Davey in the Volunteer Office ... maybe he didn't cross the border hence not on the list. But I will certainly lookout for Pugh as we work through this all.

I'll post the relevant docs in this and next message ...