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From the next DNW auction

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QSA (1) Rhod (1220 Corpl: J. G. Greer. B.S.A. Police.)
KSA (2) (1220 Corpl: J. H. Greer. B.S.A. Police.)

No other information provided (so far).

Just a little trivia......

The number of bars issued to the B.S.A.P. .....

397 Cape Colony
77 Orange Free State
625 Transvaal
1015 Rhodesia
94 Defence of Mafeking
372 Relief of Mafeking
521 South Africa 1901
397 South Africa 1902
536 Rhodesia as a single clasp
269 QSA with date clasps only

The rarest it seems is Orange Free State......

Mike

From the next DNW auction:


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QSA (1) Rhod (242 Tpr: C. H. Owen. Rhodesia Regt.)

With named card box of issue, in envelope addressed to ‘Mrs. Owen, The Crabtrees, Little Sutton, Cheshire’.

Cecil Hall Owen was born in 1880 and educated at Shrewsbury School. He served with “A” Squadron, Rhodesia Regiment under Colonel H C O Plumer during the Boer War, and died in Gwanda Hospital of meningitis on 21 January 1900.

Items relating to Major N Macglashan, SRV


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BSACM, reverse Rhodesia 1896 (0) (Major. N. Maglashan. [sic] S.F.F.) minor edge nicks;
QSA (1) Rhod (Major N. Macglashan. S. Rhod: Vol:)

Neil Macglashan was a Mining Commissioner at Manica in 1890. He commanded the Salisbury Volunteers prior to their amalgamation with the Salisbury Burgher Force to form the Salisbury Field Force in 1896. He served as a Major with the latter in connection with operations in the provinces of the Matabeleland and Mashonaland in 1896, and played a key role in the establishment of the Salisbury Laager.

He was appointed Mining Commissioner at Bulawayo in October 1897, and served as Officer Commanding of the Southern Rhodesian Volunteers during the Second Boer War.

Sold with rare Southern Rhodesian Volunteers Macglashan Cup bullion badge for shooting.

Officers of the Salisbury Field Force in 1896.

From the last Lockdales sale

QSA (1) Rhodesia (687 Serjt. H.T. Trotter B.S.A. Police)

Harry Theophilus Trotter attested to the Mashonaland Div. 13/11/1897, he died of Blackwater Fever at Mrewas 09/07/1901.

Hammer £320.

Clasp confirmed on the roll.

It is a little difficult to see but this QSA looks decidedly renamed to me




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Catalogue description says 'A pair of C20th South Africa Corps medals, one Rhodesia 1896, the other with Rhodesia Bar, presented to J.T. Bridges, Municipal Police'

There is a J T Bridges on the QSA roll but not for Rhodesia and not in the Municipal Police.