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Meurig,

The source of this information is the Siege of Kimberley book.

Hi
I acquired the Foules QSA via Morton & Eden in October 2003 and disposed of it via City Coins in August 2008
Henk

The naming on Sergeant Foules' medal.

Perhaps the HQ section of the Maxim Battery?

Picture courtesy of DNW

QSA (1) Defence of Kimberley (77147 Bomb: F. G. J. W. Marshall, 23rd. W.D., R.G.A.)
[KSA (2)]

Provenance: Glendining’s, March 1989; City Coins November 2006; Dix Noonan Webb, September 2013.

Picture courtesy of DNW

QSA (3) Defence of Kimberley, Orange Free State, Transvaal (195 Gnr: J. S. Roberton [sic]. Diamond Fields Art:);
Kimberley Star, ‘a’, unnamed as issued, lacking integral top riband bar

Provenance: Christie’s, July 1988.

John Samuel Robertson, an Overseer at De Beers, served in the Cape Mounted Rifles from 1875 to 1887 (entitled to a Cape of Good Hope General Service Medal with clasp Basutoland), and in the Umtali Rifles from 1896-97. He attested for the Diamond Field Artillery on 25 September 1899, and was killed in action at Klip Drift on 7 March 1902.