City Coins November 2006
MBE (Mil.) 1st
ABO (Burgher C.J. Botha)
1914-15 Star (Lt. G.M. Botha Naudes Scouts)
BWM; AVM (MiD) (Kapt. G.M. Botha)
1935 Jubilee
1937 Coronation
1953 Coronation
The first and last three unnamed as issued. The Anglo Boere Oorlog medalje is incorrectly named and appears to be a replacement medal to a similarly named recipient. It is to be noted that the Forsyth roll does not record the award of an ABO medal for G.M. Botha.
Capt. Botha’s WWII medals are missing.
MBE: London Gazette 18 November 1918 (T/Capt. S.A.S.C. East Africa)
Senator, Captain, the Honourable Gerhardus Maritz Botha, M.B.E. was bom in Potchefstroom in 1883. He served with the Boer Forces fighting the British and was captured at the Battle of Bothaville and sent as a PoW to Ceylon. During WWI he served in GSWA and in East Africa and during WWII as Staff Officer with the Cape Corps in Kimberley. He was elected as the Member for Vryheid in the Natal Provincial Council in 1927, M.E.C. in 1930 rising to the position of Chairman in 1934.
