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If any of you ever see this medal come up for sale again PLEASE let me know!
I have joined as many sites as I can think of to try and trace this medal but any help would be much appreciated. Thank you

djb wrote: Offered for sale by Spink yesterday but did not sell.

QSA (1) Belmont (8941 Pte. W. Ogle, Scots Gds.), good very fine

The officers and men of the 1st Battalion, Scots Guards were heavily engaged at Belmont on 23 November 1899, Lord Methuen reporting that 'they carried out their instructions to the letter, and gained the heights at the point of the bayonet.' As a consequence, the battalion's losses were severe, being 10 men killed and three officers and 34 men wounded. Colonel Paget and three of his officers were highly praised by Lord Methuen and General Colvile.

William Ogle is commemorated on the Household Cavalry and Guards memorial in Holy Trinity, Windsor. He left a widow, Sarah Anne Ogle, a shirt maker, and a 2-year old daughter, Elizabeth Violet, who were living in Pomeroy Street, Camberwell, London at the time of his death.

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If any of you ever see this medal come up for sale again PLEASE let me know!
I have joined as many sites as I can think of to try and trace this medal but any help would be much appreciated. Thank you

Lauren,

You can send an email to spink and ask them to forward it to the buyer to see if they will sell it to you or bear you in mind when they do sell.

To update this post. My great grandfather's medal was sold on ebay last weekend for £490. Sadly, despite setting up ebay search alerts, I did not see it advertised and missed the chance to buy it and get it back. I have messaged the seller asking if he would message the new buyer to let them know I am looking for it. I can only hope ...

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QSA (1) Belmont (8034 Pte. J. Boyle, R:M:L:I: H.M.S. Doris)

Private John Boyle was killed in action at Graspan (Enslin) on 25 November 1899. Four officers and 12 men of the Royal Naval Brigade were killed at Graspan, and one man died of wounds.

At 7am on 25 November 1899, at Graspan, the infantry began to work forward under the cover of artillery fire. The Naval Brigade led the storming force, extended in a single line, each man six paces apart from his neighbour. As they began the ascent, advancing by brief rushes in very open order, the hill suddenly appeared to swarm with enemies; from the crest, from behind every boulder poured a murderous fire. The naval officers of the Brigade still carried swords and could be readily distinguished; they were the target of every Boer rifle. Major Plumbe of the Marines, who was gallantly leading in front of his men, closely followed into the storm of battle by his little terrier, staggered, shouting to his soldiers, not to mind him, but to advance. He never rose again. Colonel Verner, who survived the action, afterwards stated that ‘no better kept line ever went forward to death or glory’. However, so terrible was the fire and so annihilating it’s effects upon the Brigade, that the order had to be given to retire upon the last cover.

For a moment it seemed as though the attack had failed. But the artillery poured its fire upon the crest of the ridge with more vehemence than ever; and up the slopes in very open order, firing and cheering, came the Yorkshire Light Infantry to the support of the hard pressed Naval Brigade, while the Loyal North Lancashire’s and Northumberland’s too, were sweeping forward upon the line of heights held by the Boers. Once more the Seamen and Marines pressed upward at an order from the wounded Captain Prothero ‘Men of the Naval Brigade, advance at the double; take that Kopje and be hanged to it.’ The men responded magnificently. For the last few yards of the advance the Boers could no longer fire with safety at their assailants. Their very position became disadvantageous as the slopes were so steep that they had to stand up to see their assailants, and in the deluge of shrapnel and rifle bullets which beat upon the summit, this meant almost certain death. Lieutenant Taylor of the Navy and Lieutenant Jones of the Marines, the last in spite of a bullet in his thigh, were the first into the Boer entrenchments at the top. They were closely followed by their men, and the Kopje was won.

‘I shall never forget the faces of some of those who had fallen in the final rush,’ said Colonel Verner, of the dead of the Naval Brigade. ‘They lay about in every attitude, many with their rifles, with bayonets fixed, tightly clutched in their hands, and in some cases still held at the charge. These were the same hard featured, clean cut faces, which but a short time before I had watched laboriously skirmishing across the veldt, now pale in death, but with the same set expression of being in terrible earnest to see the business through.’

Sold for a hammer price of GBP 2,000. Totals: GBP 2,576. R 56,950. AUD 4,700. NZD 5,140. CAD 4,290. USD 3,150. EUR 2,900.

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QSA (1) Belmont (5086 Pte T. Sims. North’d: Fus:) very fine £240-£280

Private Sims served with the 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers during the Second Boer War. He was wounded at Belmont on 23 November 1900.

British casualties at Belmont amounted to 53 killed and more than 200 wounded.

Sold for a hammer price of GBP 320. Totals: GBP 412. R 9,210. AUD 750. NZD 820. CAD 680. USD 500. EUR 460.