Blades | J T | | | Volunteer Service Company
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | (Princess of Wales's Own) Yorkshire Regiment |
Blades | Matthew J | | Trooper | BSACM Mashonaland 1897 (0). Matthew James Blades was a farmer by trade and a native of West Bank, Hawes, Yorkshire. He attested for the British South Africa Police, 28 April 1897, and served with the Mashonaland Division. Having left the British South Africa Police after a year's service he attested for Loch's Horse, aged 34, on 15 March 1900. Loch's Horse was raised by Lord Loch in February 1900. With a combined strength of 220, during their 12 months' service 'they shared in the advance from Bloemfontein to the Transvaal as part of the 8th Corps of Mounted Infantry commanded by Colonel Ross of the Durham Light Infantry, the Brigadier being Colonel Henry. The 8th Corps were part of the advance guard or screen to the centre of Lord Roberts' army, and had a lot of scouting skirmishing in the northward march. Colonel Henry's men, including the 1st and 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles, South Australians, Tasmanians, Lumsden's Horse, Loch's Horse, and the 4th Mounted Infantry Regulars, were among the first to cross the Vaal, and had very stiff fighting before the infantry got up, particularly at the mines in the neighbourhood of Vereeniging, about Elandsfontein, and outside Pretoria. Their work was highly praised by the Generals and by the correspondents. ' (The Colonials in South Africa, refers)Over the course of the Regiment's 12 months of active service it suffered eleven men lost to wounds and disease, and in each case the widow or next of kin was paid the sum of £50, the amount for which the life of each officer and man was insured by the Committee. 1 of 3 D. C. M. 's gazetted for the Regiment, one of which was subsequently cancelled, another upgraded to a Commission and the award of a D. S. O. , and the final one awarded to Trooper Blades. Therefore it is likely that this is the only D. C. M. in existence to the Regiment. D. C. M. London Gazette 27 September 1901. Distinguished Conduct Medal, E. VII. R. (Tpr: J. Blades. Loch's Horse); BSACM Mashonaland 1897 (436 Troopr M. J. Blades. B. S. A. Police. ); QSA, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (196 Tpr: M. J. Blades, Loch's Horse) DNW December 2016 £4600.
Source: BSACM rolls | British South Africa Police |
Blades | S F | | Civilian | Demise: Died of disease - dysentery 28 Jan 1900
Place: Ladysmith
Source: In Memoriam by S Watt | Natal Government Railways |
Blades | S J | | | Source: WO100/279 | Natal Government Railways |
Blades | T | | Petty Officer 2nd Class | QSA (0). Ref: 185.727.
Source: QSA medal rolls | HMS Partridge |
Blades | W B | | Able Seaman | QSA (7) Belm MR Paar Drie Joh DH Belf. Ref: 184.295. Wounded Graspan 25 Nov 99
Source: QSA medal rolls | HMS Monarch |
Blades | W J | 7455 | Sapper | Name spelt BLAKES on roll 156/37.
QSA (4) CC OFS Tr SA02
TNA ref 156/42; 156/37 | Royal Engineers, Field Company, 9th |
Blades | W W | | Conductor | MID LG: 10 September 1901, page: 5959. Source: Field Marshal Roberts. 4 September 1901. Re: General mentions
This page contains all the London Gazette pages for the Boer War | Army Ordnance Corps |
Bladon | A | 3798 | Private | Missing in action. Rhenoster, 27 July 1900
Rejoined
Source: South African Field Force Casualty Roll | 17th (The Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers |
Bladon | A | 3798 | Private | QSA (4). Initials 'A.E.' on E.C. Roll. Missing, Rhenoster, 27 Jul 00. Rejoined.
Source: QSA medal rolls | 17th (The Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers |
Bladon | C | | | Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Peninsula Horse |
Bladon | E | 3657 | Private | Missing in action. Near Dewetsdorp, 26 November 1900
Released
Source: South African Field Force Casualty Roll | 17th (The Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers |
Bladon | E | 3637 | Private | QSA (4). Missing, near Dewetsdorp, 26 Nov 00. Released. Number '3657' on Casualty Roll.
Source: QSA medal rolls | 17th (The Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers |
Bladon | F R | | | 4th Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Bedfordshire Regiment |
Blady | W | 50B/1876 | Private | Frontier Wars. SAGS (0) | (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Middlesex Regiment |
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