| Percy | H M | 229 | Private | QSA (4) Nat OFS Belf 01.
Enlisted in Calgary 6 February 1900
Source: List of QSAs with raised dates | Canada, Lord Strathcona's Horse |
| Peterson | C | 309 | Private | QSA (3) Nat OFS Belf [01].
A Danish subject who enlisted at Fort Steele on 6 Feb 00.
Sotheby June 1970. Morton and Eden October 2003. DNW October 2014 GBP 6,000
Source: List of QSAs with raised dates | Canada, Lord Strathcona's Horse |
| Peyto | E D | 487 | Private | QSA (4) Nat OFS Belf 01.
Served in the Great War and invalided.
Burman October 2002 GBP 3,100
Source: List of QSAs with raised dates | Canada, Lord Strathcona's Horse |
| Playfair | William Shaw | 486 | Private | QSA (4) Nat OFS Belf 01.
Enlisted on 8 February 1900, at Calgary, aged 24. He gave up his occupation as rancher and cow boy. His birthplace was Perth, Scotland. Private Playfair served in South Africa with 3 Troop B Squadron.
Hoare Auctions September 2004. eMedals December 2006 GBP 3,100
Source: List of QSAs with raised dates | Canada, Lord Strathcona's Horse |
| Powell | Frank Newstead | 32 | Private | QSA (3) Nat OFS Tr; KSA (2) 01 02 (Lt IY); 1914-15 Star (Capt S Lan Regt); BWM, VM (Capt).
Enlisted at Winnipeg 12 February 1900 and was posted to Head Quarters, Staff. He was commissioned Lieutenant on 4 June, 1901, in the 18th Imperial Yeomanry (Sharpshooters). He served in the Great War as Captain in the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment and, from 29 May, 1918, in the Labour Corps. Captain Powell resigned his commission in May 1920. QSA (4). Glendining May 1938 GBP 11. QSA (3) DNW May 1993 GBP 1,800. Ursual December 2005 GBP 4,470
Source: List of QSAs with raised dates | Canada, Lord Strathcona's Horse |
| Read | W E | 245 | Sergeant | QSA (0) [CC OFS Belf 01]
Source: List of QSAs with raised dates | Canada, Lord Strathcona's Horse |
| Reid | J | 132 | Private | QSA (4) Nat OFS Belf 01.
POW 10 November 1900 but escaped. Court marshalled for killing a fellow soldier in an accident.
Source: List of QSAs with raised dates | Canada, Lord Strathcona's Horse |
| Rice-Davies | J E C | 241 | Private | QSA (4) Nat OFS Belf 01
Source: List of QSAs with raised dates | Canada, Lord Strathcona's Horse |
| Richardson | Arthur Herbert Lindsay | 46 | Sergeant | He was the first Colonial whose Victoria Cross was gazetted during the Boer War [London Gazette, 14 September 1900]: 'Arthur Herbert Lindsay Richardson, Sergeant, Lord Strathcona's Horse. On the 5th July, 1900, at Wolve Spruit, about fifteen miles north of Standerton, a party of Lord Strathcona's Corps, only thirty-eight in number, came into contact and was engaged at close quarters with a force of eighty of the enemy. When the order to retire had been given, Sergeant Richardson rode back under a very heavy cross-fire and picked up a trooper whose horse had been shot and who was wounded in two places, and rode with him out of fire. At the time when this act of gallantry was performed Sergeant Richardson was within 300 yards of the enemy, and was himself riding a wounded horse'.
Source: List of QSAs with raised dates | Canada, Lord Strathcona's Horse |
| Roberts | Frederick Sherston | | Lieutenant | He was was born at Umballa, India, 8 January 1872. He entered the King's Royal Rifle Corps on 10 June 1891, and during the four following years was on active service on the North-West Frontier of India, including Chitral, receiving the Medals and clasps and being mentioned in Despatches. He served in the Boer War of 1899-1902, and lost his life at the Battle of Colenso in an attempt (described in the account of Captain Congreve) to save the guns of the 14th and 66th Batteries, RFA, which had dashed forward, far in advance of their flank supports, and opened fire on the Boer position. Without shelter of any description, and in full view of a strongly entrenched enemy, they became the object of a fearful storm of bullets and shells, which tore the horses to pieces and strewed the gunners on the ground around the guns. At last there were hardly enough men left to serve the guns, and it seemed impossible to bring relief from the donga five hundred yards to the rear. Soon the batteries had no one to serve them, and they were abandoned. But Colonel Long had said as they removed him from the gun by which he had fallen, 'Abandon be damned! We don't abandon guns'. Others were of the same opinion, and Lieutenant Roberts was one of those who answered General Buller's appeal for volunteers, and was mortally wounded in trying to save a gun, which was presented to Lord Roberts by the War Office authorities. On it, years afterwards, the great soldier's coffin was carried at his funeral. The following is an extract from a letter written by an officer at this time to a friend: 'I was galloper to General Clery, who rode all day with Sir Redvers Buller. About ten o'clock two batteries, which had advanced too close, ran short of ammunition. Their limbers were about 800 yards behind. Horses and men were sheltering in a deep narrow nullah. General Buller told them to take the limbers up to the battery, but directly they emerged a storm of bullets and shells fell all around ... Generals Clery and Buller stood out in it, and said, 'Some of you go and help'. Schofield (ADC), Roberts (Lord Roberts's son) and myself, with the help of a corporal and six gunners, went to the limbers, and got two of them horsed. I have never seen, even at field firing, the bullets fly thicker. All one could see was little tufts of dust all over the ground, a whistling noise — 'phux', where they hit, and an increasing rattle of musketry, somewhere in front. My first bullet went through my left sleeve, and just made the joint of my elbow bleed, next a clod of earth caught me smack on the right arm; then my horse got one, then my right leg one, my horse another, and that settled us, for he plunged, and I fell about a hundred yards short of the guns we were going to'. The fury of that leaden storm can be imagined from the fact that one gunner was found with sixty-four wounds in his body. In the meantime Captain Reed, of the 7th Battery, had arrived with three spare teams of horses, and he made another desperate effort to save the remaining guns, but five of his thirteen men were hit and one killed, and thirteen out of his twenty-one horses killed before he could get half-way to the guns. For his gallantry on this occasion he was afterwards awarded the Victoria Cross, as were Schofield, Congreve and Roberts. The Honourable Frederick Roberts's Victoria Cross was gazetted 2 January 1900: 'The Honourable Frederick Sherston Roberts (since deceased), Lieutenant, King's Royal Rifle Corps. At Colenso, on the 15th December 1899, the detachments serving the guns of the 14th and 66th Batteries, Royal Field Artillery, had all been either killed, wounded, or driven from their guns by infantry fire at close range, and the guns were deserted. About 5OO yards behind the lines was a donga, in which some of the few horses and drivers left alive were sheltered. The intervening space was swept with shell and rifle fire. Captain Congreve, Rifle Brigade, who was in the donga, assisted to hook a team into a limber, went out, and assisted to limber up a gun. Being wounded, he took shelter; but seeing Lieutenant Roberts fall badly wounded, he went out again and brought him in. With him went the gallant Major Babtie, of the RAMC, who had ridden across the donga amid a hail of bullets, and had done what he could for the wounded men. Captain Congreve was shot through the leg, through the toe of his boot, grazed on the elbow and the shoulder, and his horse shot in three places. Lieutenant Roberts assisted Captain Congreve. He was wounded in three places'. There is a memorial to him in Winchester Cathedral and in the chapel at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
VC, IGS 1854 (1) Clasp Waziristan 1894-95, IGS 1895 (1) Relief of Chitral, Queen's Sudan, QSA (2) RofL, Nat, with raised dates, 1897 Jubilee Medal, Turkey Order of the Medjidie (4th class), Khedive's Sudan Medal.
Source: List of QSAs with raised dates | King's Royal Rifle Corps |
| Robson | J S | 243 | Private | QSA (4) Nat OFS Belf 01
Source: List of QSAs with raised dates | Canada, Lord Strathcona's Horse |
| Shaw | A J M | 349 | Private | QSA (4) Nat OFS Belf 01.
Ursual August 1993 Cdn 4,250. Hoare September 1994
Source: List of QSAs with raised dates | Canada, Lord Strathcona's Horse |
| Shaw | R | 310 | Private | QSA (3) Nat Belf 01.
Ursual List 74 Cdn 4,500
Source: List of QSAs with raised dates | Canada, Lord Strathcona's Horse |
| Simpson | P E | 350 | Private | QSA (5) Nat OFS Belf 01 02
Source: List of QSAs with raised dates | Canada, Lord Strathcona's Horse |
| Smiley | F S | 257 | Private | QSA (4) Nat OFS Belf 01.
Born in Ireland, enlisted at Maple Creek on February 9, 1900 aged 24. By trade he was Cowboy, single. Discharged 16/3/1901 in Ottawa.
eMedals Dec 06
Source: List of QSAs with raised dates | Canada, Lord Strathcona's Horse |
| Smith | H S | 19467 | QMS | MBE (1st Type, Military); QSA (3) CC Paard Joh; 1914 Star (19467 Supdt Clk RE); BWM; VM (Capt); LS&GC (19487 H T Smith QMS RE).
MBE London Gazette 12 December 1919: 'In recognition of valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in Egypt and Palestine.' Henry Surridge Smith, who was born in April 1868, served for a little over 23 years in the ranks of the Royal Engineers, LS&GC awarded October 1901 Appointed Superintending Clerk (Warrant Officer Class II) in March 1907. He was commissioned as a Temporary Captain in July 1915, while serving in the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. MID from General A J Murray, Egyptian Expeditonary Force, 'For gallant and distinguished services in the Field' (LG 11 January 1918). Glendening March 1988 GBP 1,350. DNW September 2007 GBP 4,100
Source: List of QSAs with raised dates | Royal Engineers |
| Stalker | J R | 83 | Private | QSA (3) Nat OFS Belf; [BWM, VM].
Enlisted Prince Albert 9 February 1900 from NWMP.
Glendining November 1987 GBP 1,100. Ursual September 1999 GBP 2,250
Source: List of QSAs with raised dates | Canada, Lord Strathcona's Horse |
| Stark | T B | 113 | Sergeant | QSA (4) Nat OFS Belf 01
Source: List of QSAs with raised dates | Canada, Lord Strathcona's Horse |
| Stewart | A W | 135 | Private | QSA (4) Nat OFS Belf 01.
Wounded 14 November 1900
Source: List of QSAs with raised dates | Canada, Lord Strathcona's Horse |
| Stillingfleet | H C | 390 | Private | QSA (3) Nat OFS Belf.
Ursual #118 & #119 as QSA (2) Nat OFS. Liverpool April 1997 GBP 2,300 as QSA (3)
Source: List of QSAs with raised dates | Canada, Lord Strathcona's Horse |
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