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The DoM to Rolneck, MTG, sold for a hammer price of GBP 1,400. Totals: GBP 1,803. R 41,300. AUD 3,330. NZD 3,550. CAD 2,970. USD 2,190. EUR 2,030

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QSA (1) Defence of Mafeking (A. Lees. Mafeking Town Gd:)

Sold for a hammer price of GBP 1,500. Totals: GBP 1,932. R 43,180. AUD 3,520. NZD 3,840. CAD 3,210. USD 2,360. EUR 2,160.

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QSA (1) Defence of Mafeking (775 Pte. D. Cooke. Cape Police.)

Daniel Cooke attested into the Cape Police and served during the Defence of Mafeking. He was discharged medically unfit in November 1900 and his medal was issued in April 1903.

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QSA (1) Defence of Mafeking (Corpl: Shg: Sth: H. G. Burt. Protect: Regt F.F.), the number officially erased

Spink say 3 members of the 17th Lancers served attached to the Protectorate Regiment Frontier Force during the Siege of Mafeking and that the medal roll notes the medal was returned and re-issued, presumably having erased the number- which appears on the role as the incorrect 4323- rather than the correct 4327.

Described as:

Hubert George Smith [sic] was serving as a Corporal with the Lancers before being attached to the Protectorate Regiment with the rank of Corporal Shoeing-Smith. The night of Smith's death Captain Charles Flitzclarence led a squadron of the Regiment, with the support of the Natal Police [sic] in a night raid, ...

Smith was killed in action on 27 October 1899, one of the two days referenced in Captain Charles Fitzclarence's Victoria Cross citation. His death is apparently referred to specially in The Diary of Miss Ina Cowan: Seven Months of a Lifetime.