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War correspondents
Whether to award QSAs to correspondents was discussed
in 1901 with the decision was made to issue medals under certain
circumstances in December 1901. The discussions are contained in WO
32/8559. To receive a war medal, the correspondent must:
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Be accredited by the editor of the newspaper he
represents
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Have reported by telegraph and not by letter
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Held a pass from the Chief Censor
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Have served with troops in the field
Not all correspondents were issued with medals under
these rules. Click here to see the
list. Some correspondents were also casualties.
Click here to see the list for whom it is not
clear whether they received medals.
Medals awarded to:
Adams, J, Westminster Gazette
Adamson, G, Standard, Date issued: 18 May 03
Amery, L S, The Times, Date issued: 20 Feb 03
Baillie, Major F D, Morning Post, Date issued: 16 Feb
03
Later F D Murray
Ballie. Present at Mafeking
Barnes, J, Daily Mail, Date issued: 23 Feb 03
Barnett, D, Black and White, Date issued: 23 Mar 03
Battersby, H F P, Morning Post, Date issued: 16 Feb 03
Beresford, Honourable S R de la P H ,
Central News, Date issued: 10 Jun 03
Black Atkins, J, Manchester Guardian, Date issued: 6
Mar 03
Blelock, W E, Standard, Date issued: 18 Jun 03
Bray, C, Central News, Date issued: 10 Jun 03
Brayley Hodgetts, E A, Daily Express, Date issued: 5
Jun 03
Brownlow, G, Reuter, Date issued: 16 Feb 03
Bull, G, Daily News,
Bull, Rene, Black and White, Date issued: 23 Feb 03
Bullen, P S, Daily Telegraph, Date issued: 18 Mar 03
Burleigh, Bennet, Daily Telegraph, Date issued: 18 Mar
03
Pictured with
General Buller in Black and White, 3 Feb 00. Of
95, North Side, Clapham Common, SW, was born in Glasgow. He took part in
the American Civil War, and was twice sentenced to be shot by the
Federals; acted as correspondent for the Central News during the
Egyptian campaign in 1882; present at the action at Tel-el-Kebir; went
through the French campaign in Madagascar as correspondent; and in 1884
he accompanied the desert column from Korti to Metemmeh as correspondent
of the Daily Telegraph. He also served in the Ashanti Expedition, the
Athara Expedition, the second Egyptian War, in 1894, when he was present
at Omdurman, the Boer War in 1899-1902, in all of which he acted as
correspondent for the Daily Telegraph. He is the author of Empire oj the
East. Unmarried.
Buxton, E A, Cape Argus, Date issued: 23 Feb 03
Calder, Daniel (or James?) Innes, Reuter, Date
issued: 16 Feb 03
Died
of dysentery at Maseru.
Cameron, J A, Reuter / Daily Chronicle, Date issued: 16
Feb 03
Campbell, Honourable A, Laffan,
Date issued: 12 Feb 03
Chapman, W E, Daily Chronicle, Date issued: 16 Feb 03
Charleston, D, Daily Chronicle, Date issued: 16 Feb 03
Collett, Frederick Slater, Daily Mail, Date issued: 23
Feb 03
Was killed at Schoeman's Farm.
Collins, H M, Daily News/ Natal Mercury / Reuter, Date
issued: 16 Feb 03
Cox, W, Natal Mercury / Times of Natal, Date issued: 18
May 03
Daniells, Gordon, Daily Express, Date issued: 5 Jun 03
De Kleen, Lieutenant C, Morgenbladen, Date issued: 23
May 03
Donohoe, M H, Daily Chronicle, Date issued: 16 Feb 03
Duncombe-Jewell, L C R, Morning Post, Date issued: 16
Feb 03
Louis Charles Richard Jewell was born at Liskeard,
Cornwall, on 10 September 1866. He assumed the additional surname of
Duncombe in accordance with his Grandmother’s will in 1895. Formerly a
Lieutenant in the 3rd Volunteer Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, he
represented The Times in Spain during the rumours of an impending
Carlist rising in 1898-99, and served as a Special War Correspondent for
the Morning Post newspaper in South Africa, the same paper that also
employed Winston Churchill, with the 3rd Division South African Field
Force. Duncombe-Jewell was a noted historian, novelist and
verse-writer, and made numerous contributions to the Pall Mall Gazette,
Black and White Budget, and many other publications of the period. He
was editor of Armorial Cornwall, founder and Hon. Sec. Celtic-Cornish
Society, and leader of the Cornish Language Movement.
QSA (0) (Mr L C R Duncombe-Jewell, ‘Morning Post’).
DNW Jul 01 £1,050. Liverpool Nov 04 £1,650
Ewan, J A, Toronto Globe, Date issued: 17 Feb 03
Falconer, P C, Daily Telegraph, Date issued: 22 Apr 04
Farrand, George Alfred, Morning Post, Date issued: 16
Feb 03
Was killed at Wagon Hill, Ladysmith, on January 6th, 1900.
Finn, R E, Montreal Herald, Date issued: 10 Mar 03
Fletcher, J, L Daily Post, Date issued: 17 Feb 03
Fripp, C E, Graphic, Date issued: 12 Feb 03
Giles, G D, Graphic, Date issued: 12 Feb 03
Goldmann, C S, Cape Argus / Standard & Outlook, Date
issued: 16 Feb 03
Born at Burghersdorp,
Cape Colony For many years Mr C S Goldmann had been identified with the
firm of S Neumann and Company, one of the most powerful of the SA mining
and financial groups, when in 1895 he was admitted to partnership in the
firm, from which he has since retired. Mr Goldmann is a man of enormous
energy and concentration; he has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of the
requirements of the Rand industry, and devoted himself entirely to the
gold mining branch of his firm's business. He is Chairman of the Lingham
Timber and Trading Company, and a director of the Langlaagte Block B
Deep, the Alexandra Estate and GM Company, the Knight Central, the
Marievale Nigel, the Rickuil Company, Consolidated Main Reef, Main Reef
Deep, Main Reef East, New Modderfontein, Treasury, Vogelstruis
Consolidated, Deep, Witwatersrand Deep, Wolhuter, Bantjcs Consolidated
Mines, Cloverfield Mines, Hercules Company, Main Reef West, Randfontein
Deep, West Rand Consolidated Mines, West Rand Trust, Withank Colliery,
and York GM Company, Ltd Mr Goldmann is the author of The Witwatersrand
Goldfields, Goldmann's South African Mining and Finance, and Goldmann's
Map of the Witwatersrand— all invaluable works for those who aspire to
complete knowledge of the Transvaal Fields. In the Boer War he acted as
war correspondent of the Argus and Standard, and at its close he brought
out a book on the cavalry operations, entitled With General French in
South Africa. He is President of the SA Football Assoc, and has a
cultivated artistic taste. He married, Feb 11, 1899, Hon Agnes Mary,
younger daughter of the Right Hon Viscount Peel, of the Lodge, Sandy,
Beds., late Speaker of the House of Commons, and granddaughter of Sir
Robert Peel, the great Prime Minister.
Gotto, Basil, Daily Express, Date issued: 5 Jun 03
Basil Gotto was a noted sculptor, born on 10 August
1866. He was educated at Harrow and studied Art in Paris. He entered the
Royal Academy Schools in 1887 and was Landseer Scholar in 1890, first
exhibiting Sculpture at the Royal Academy in 1892. He was a War
Correspondent for the Daily Express newspaper during the Boer War and
met with Winston Churchill on several occasions. His principal works
were: Bacchus; Beggar Man; Nansicaa; Memorial to Middlesex Yeomanry, St
Paul’s Cathedral; The Fighting Newfoundler and the Caribou (Newfoundland
War Memorial); and the Army & Navy Club War Memorial. Basil Gotto died
on 19 October 1954.
QSA (0) (Mr. B. Gotto, “Daily Express”). DNW
Dec 00 £1,500.
Graham, A, Central News, Date issued: 10 Jun 03
Greenlees, J N, The Times, Date issued: 20 Feb 03
Captain James Neilson Greenlees was born 22nd June
1852 at Glasgow. He was the son of Matthew Greenlees of Cambletown, N.B.
Educated at Blair Lodge School and Edinburgh University. He arrived in
South Africa 1871. Diamond fields and fanning and store keeping in the
Free State, making two hunting trips north of Bechuanaland. In 1881 had
a wholesale mercantile business in Newcastle, Natal, where he was head
of Municipality in 1883. In business at Wakkerstroom, Transvaal, from
1884-9, then Johannesburg, stockbroking. At the beginning of the
last war Mr Greenlees was appointed War Correspondent to 'The Times' and
was with General French in the Colesberg District. Joined the Colonial
Division under General Brabant in Dec 1899 and went through all the
divisions fighting including the seige of Wepener, up till August 1900,
when he was with General Clements, from Senekal to Bethlehem. Appointed
A.D.C. to General Brabant until Jan 1902, when, on the re-organisation
of the C.D.F., he retired and returned to Johannesburg. He is Director
of several companies and for years on the committee of the Stock
Exchange, He married in 1893 Miss Ethel Maud Giltings of Birmingham.
QSA (0) (Mr J N Greenlees "Times"), QSA (4) CC Wep
Tr Witt (Capt Col Def Force). Dixon Feb 07 £2,400.
Greenwood, T J, Cape Argus, Date issued: 23 Feb 03
Gwynne, H A, Reuter, Date issued: 16 Feb 03
Hales, Alfred Arthur Greenwood, Daily News, Date issued: 5 Jan 04
He was born in Australia in 1870 and
married firstly, Emmaline, daughter of William Pritchard of Adelaide.
They had four sons and one daughter before she died in 1911. He married
subsequently Jean Reid of Scotland. Mr. Hales was a correspondent for
the Daily News in South Africa and was wounded and taken prisoner at
Rensburg in February 1900. Hales had attached himself to the
Australians, then engaged in some fierce fighting near Colesburg, when
he was taken prisoner. The correspondent of the Melbourne Herald,
accompanied by Mr. Cameron, the Australian correspondent, bearing a flag
of truce, went to the Boer line west of Rensburg to make enquiries from
Commandant Delarey regarding Mr Lambie, Melbourne Age, and Mr. Hales,
Daily News, the missing Australian correspondents. They were blindfolded
before being taken into the Boer camp, where they were informed that Mr Lambie had been killed, and were handed the portrait of his wife, which
had been found in his pocket. Mr. Hales, owing to a fall from his horse,
had been taken prisoner. After the Boer War Mr Hales continued to write
for the Daily News covering the fighting in Macedonia and during the
Russo-Japanese war. He travelled extensively throughout the world
lecturing and as a special correspondent. He followed mining for years
and visited nearly every known mining field in the world, making a
particular study of the mining, pastoral and agricultural possibilities
in South America. He was a prolific writer and had published a great
number of novels including the McGlusky adventures. Mr. Hales lived
latterly at Herne Bay in Kent and died on 29 November 1936 (Ref Who Was
Who 1929-40). The Daily News was amalgamated, in 1930, with The Daily
Chronicle to form the News Chronicle.
QSA (0) (Mr. A.G. Hales, 'Daily News'). DNW
Dec 94 £1,950.
Hallimond, W T, The Times, Date issued: 20 Feb 03
Hallowell, J A , Daily Mail / Cape Times, Date issued:
23 Feb 03
Hamilton, F, Toronto Globe, Date issued: 17 Feb 03
Hamilton, J A L M, Black and White, Date issued: 23 Feb
03
See Black & White
Budget 3 Feb 00.
John Angus Lushington Moore Hamilton was born in London on 19 February
1874, only son of John Angus Lushington Hamilton, formerly a Captain in
the West India Regiment. He was educated at Cheltenham College, from
1889 to 1891, and also in Germany and France. In 1894 he became a
special correspondent in America, and from this time he traveeled all
over the world, reporting for a number of newspapers and journals. He
also wrote a number of books which dealt with his experiences and
travels, as well as articles for various journals.
In 1896 he was a special correspondent in Australasia, and, prior to the
outbreak of the Boer War, he sailed for South Africa in August 1899.
Shortly after his arrival at Cape Town, Hamilton went north by train,
arriving at Kimberley on 28 September, and at Mafeking on 9 October. War
was declared two days later, on 11 October 1899.
Hamilton was present in Mafeking throughout the siege, and stayed at
Riesle’ Hotel. Whilst in South Africa he represented The Times and also
the Black and White Budget. Many of his photographs were reproduced in
the Black and White Budget from the issue of 10 February 1900 onwards.
His own portrait appears in the issue of 3 February 1900, where it
states: ‘With the gallant hero of Mafeking, Colonel Baden-Powell, we
have a gentleman who is now tasting his first experience of warfare, Mr
J. Angus Hamilton, who has the brilliant English dramatist, Mr Arthur
Wing Pinero, for his stepfather. Mr Hamilton is the son of a deceased
officer in Her Majesty’s Army, and he himself, in addition to being a
war correspondent, has been carrying a rifle in the trenches at
Mafeking. Mr Hamilton was successful in being the first correspondent to
get through pictorial news of the almost already historical siege of the
little far-away town on the veld.’
Towards the close of the siege, on 12 May 1900, there was a sharp action
when the B.S.A. Police Fort at Mafeking was stormed by the Boers and its
occupants captured. Hamilton was present on this occasion, and was
himself captured and made a prisoner of Commandant Eloff. However, the
gallant townsfolk of Mafeking rallied to their help and at dusk on the
same day, after some fierce action, the Boers were forced to surrender
and were themselves made prisoners. On 16 May, Mafeking was relieved,
and it seems that Hamilton returned immediately to England, for, on 21
July 1900, he was on his way to China and the Boxer Rebellion. Prior to
his departure, he had completed his first book, The Siege of Mafeking,
published by Methuen & Co. in 1900.
Hamilton arrived in China as correspondent for the Pall Mall Gazette and
the Black and White, and covered the end of the Boxer Rebellion. Whilst
in China he contracted an illness which forced his return to England,
and while in London and about to see his doctor, he heard news of the
engagement at Erego in Somaliland. Instead of going to his doctor, he
went immediately to see Baron A. J. C. Herbert de Reuter, Managing
Director of Reuter’s Telegram Company, and secured arrangements for his
journey to the scene of hostilities. He left immediately by train across
France and Italy for the Straits of Messina, from where he sailed to
Aden. Arriving in British Somaliland at Berbera, Hamilton accompanied
the column commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel A. S. Cobbe, and took part in
a number of the minor expeditions which were conducted during the course
of the campaign.
After his adventures in Somaliland, Hamilton again returned to the Far
East where he was the representative for the Pall Mall Gazette and The
Times of India for Central Asia. He had also found time, in 1903, to be
a war correspondent during the Balkan-Macedonia conflict. In 1904 his
book, Korea, was published by William Heinemann, and also his Map of
Korea in the same year. During 1904-05, Hamilton was a war correspondent
during the Russo-Japanese War, and his notice in Who was Who records
that he received the Russo-Japanese War medal.
From 1905-06 he was a special correspondent in Central Asia, and in the
latter year his book, Afghanistan, was published by William Heinemann.
Three years later, his book, Problems of the Middle East, was published
by Eveleigh Nash, and in 1911 his book, Somaliland, was published by
Hutchinson & Co. Hamilton was editor of the South China Morning Post
during 1910-11. From October 1911 to April 1912, he was in Assam during
the Abor operations, including the Mishmi and Miri Missions. Following
these, his book, In Abor Jungles, was published in 1912 by Eveleigh
Nash.
Hamilton’s last active service was when he was representing the Central
News Agency in the Balkan War of October to December 1912, between
Turkey and Bulgaria. During this war, in November, he was captured by
the Bulgarians during their advance against Chatalja, and ‘as he was in
Turkish dress they manacled him’ and he was taken a prisoner to
Kirkkilisse.
After his release, Hamilton went to the United States on a lecture tour,
but was discovered dead in a New York hotel on 13 June 1913. He had
committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor, an act attributed
to despondency over the lack of financial success of his lecture tour.
Hamilton was still only 39 years old. He was buried in Evergreen
Cemetery, in Brooklyn. In addition to his books already quoted, Hamilton
contributed a great number of articles to a variety of journals,
including the United Service Magazine, the Fortnightly Review, the
Hindustan Review, and the Commonwealth Military Journal. The group is
accompanied by further research including an original copy of his Siege
of Mafeking.
QSA (1) DofM (Mr. J. Angus Hamilton, “Black & White”) copy clasp, China
(1) Relief of Pekin (A. Hamilton, War Correspondent) copy clasp, AGS (1)
Somalilaqnd 0204, (Angus Hamilton) renamed. DNW Sep 03 £3,400.
Hamilton is not entitled to the clasps for the Defence of Mafeking or
the Relief of Pekin, War Correspondents being entitled to the medals
without clasp only. Whilst he was certainly present during the
Somaliland operations, War Correspondents did not qualify for the medal.
It is apparent, therefore, that this last medal and the clasps affixed
to all three are later embellishments carried out by Hamilton himself.
Why, indeed, should he not wish to commemorate his presence at the
Defence of Mafeking, at Pekin, and in Somaliland?
Approximately 150 medals were issued to War Correspondents for the Boer
War. They represented some 47 different newspapers, but only a small
handful of these correspondents were present at the Siege of Mafeking.
Just 10 medals were issued to War Correspondents for the Boxer Rebellion
in China 1900.
Hands, C E, Daily Mail, Date issued: 23 Feb 03
Hartland, W H, Army & Navy, Date issued: 18 May 03
Herbert, B, The Times, Date issued: 20 Feb 03
Howie, D S, Times of Natal, Date issued: 18 May 03
Howland, F H, Daily Mail, Date issued: 25 Jan 07
Hutton, A, Reuter, Date issued: 16 Feb 03
Ireland, F, Daily News, Date issued: 6 Apr 03
Mr Frank Ireland, a former Editor of the Coventry
Standard, went to South Africa before the Boer War and became one of the
Daily News correspondents at its outbreak. Afterwards he joined the
staff of the Diamond Fields Advertiser and became its Editor in 1910.
QSA (0) (Mr F. Ireland, “Daily News”). DNW
Jun 02 £1,200.
James, Lionel, The Times, Date issued: 20 Feb 03
Colonel Lionel James was born in 1871 and educated
at Cranleigh. Employed as a journalist, he was Reuter’s special
correspondent in the Chitral, Mohmand, Malakand and Tirah Expeditions
and for the Sudan in 1898. On the staff of The Times from 1899 until he
retired in 1913. Amongst his many assignments he was special
correspondent in South Africa 1899-1901, Manchuria 1904, with the
Spanish Army in Morocco in 1909, with the Turkish Army in Albania in
1910, with the Turks in Thrace in 1912 and with the Bulgarians in Thrace
in 1913. With the onset of the Great War he commanded King Edward’s
Horse in the BEF, France and Italy, 1915-18. He was awarded the DSO (
London Gazette 16.9.1918) and mentioned in despatches twice. He was
awarded the CBE in 1924.
CBE (1st, Mil) Order of the British Empire, 1st
type, Military Division, silver-gilt and enamel; DSO GV, IGS (4) Relief
of Chitral 1895, Punjab Frontier 1897-8, Malakand 1897, Tirah 1897-8, (QSA
(6) CC Eland DofL OFS Joh DH, IGS (1) NWF 1908, 1914 Star; British War
and Victory Medals; Italy, Order of the Crown, Officer’s, Khedive’s
Sudan (1) Khartoum, Japan, Russo-Japanese War Medal. Miniatures
only, DNW Sep 03 £550.
Jenkins, W, Daily News
Jennis, G, Illustrated London News, Date issued: 17 Feb
03
Jones, Central News, Date issued: 10 Jun 03
Keet, P G, Reuter, Date issued: 16 Feb 03
King, G M , Melbourne Age
Kinnear, A, Central News, Date issued: 10 Jun 03
Knight, Edward Frederick, Morning Post, Date issued: 16 Feb 03
Born in 1852, and is son of Edward Knight, of Cumberland. He was
educated at Westminster and Caius College, Cambridge, acted as Times
correspondent in Matabeleland in 1893-5; the Sudan Campaign in 1896, and
again in 1897-8. He also served in the Boer War in 1899-1900, being
severely wounded at Belmont, which resulted in the amputation of his
right arm. He now acts as special correspondent for the Morning Post in
the Far East. Mr Knight is the author of several publications, including
Rhodesia of Today and Letters from the Sudan.
Knox, W B, Reuter, Date issued: 16 Feb 03
Lambert, S, Financial News, Date issued: 17 Feb 03
Lambie, W J, Melbourne Age, Date issued: 27 Feb 03
Correspondent for Age, Melbourne, was killed at
Slingersfontein in January 1900.
Lane, Eustace, Herald, Date issued: 15 Feb 04
Lawrence, F M, Black and White, Date issued: 23 Feb 03
See Black & White
Budget 3 Feb 00
Lines, G W , Reuter, Date issued: 16 Feb 03
London, P, The Times, Date issued: 20 Feb 03
Luard, G, Reuter, Date issued: 16 Feb 03
Lyons, H S , Daily Mail / Bloemfontein Post, Date
issued: 15 May 07
MacCorgnodale, S, Liverpool Daily Post, Date issued: 17
Feb 03
MacDonald, D, Melbourne Argus, Date issued: 12 Feb 03
Macdonnell, P J, The Times, Date issued: 20 Feb 03
MacHugh, R J, Daily Telegraph, Date issued: 18 Mar 03
MacKay, W H , Reuter, Date issued: 16 Feb 03
MacKenzie, H, Reuter, Date issued: 16 Feb 03
MacKenzie, J W, Reuter Agency, Date issued: 22 Apr 03
MacMenamon, J J, Natal Witness, Date issued: 18 Apr 03
Manners, Lord Cecil, Morning Post, Date issued: 21 Feb
03
Martindale, W, Central News, Date issued: 2 Jul 03
Maud, W T, Graphic, Date issued: 12 Feb 03
Maxwell, W, Standard, Date issued: 18 Jun 03
Maydon, John George, Daily News
Born Oct 14, 1857, is only son of John Maydon, of Salden, Bucks; was
educated at City of London School, and went to Natal in 1878 in order to
take part in the Zulu War through which he served with the Coast column.
On the establishment of Responsible Govt, in Natal in 1893 he was
elected Member of the Legislative Assembly for Durban County. Visiting
England in 1897 he did not seek reelection; spent two years in travel
and the study of the racial problem, becoming an ardent advocate of war
as the only means of solving the question of British supremacy in South
Africa. On war being declared, he offered his services to the military
authorities. These were not accepted, and he became correspondent of the
Daily News, being first with Lord Methuen. After Magersfontein he joined
General French, with whom he was at the relief of Kimberley, and the
captures of Cronje and Bloemfontein, receiving a scalp wound at
Driefontein. Returning to Natal in April, 1901, he was re-elected to the
Assembly as member for Durban Boro', in succession to John Robinson, and
worked to secure a more vigorous development of Natal's resources. Upon
the resignation of the Home Ministry in 1903, he joined the Sutton
Administration as Colonial Secretary, and subsequently was appointed
Minister of Railways and Harbours. Mr Maydon is the author of a short
account of the early operations of the Boer War, entitled French's
Cavalry Campaign. He married first, a daughter of D King, and second,
Dorothy Isabelle, eldest daughter of I L Cope, of Highlands, Natal.
McKeown Brown, S, Mail and Empire, Date issued: 17 Jul
03
Menpes, Mortimer, Black and White, Date issued: 3 Jun
04
See Black & White
Budget 3 Feb 00
Milligan, A, Natal Mercury, Date issued: 18 Apr 03
Milne, J, Reuter, Date issued: 16 Feb 03
Mitchell, J, Exchange Tel Co, Date issued: 12 Feb 03
Mitchell, Robert, Standard, Date issued: 18 Jun 03
Correspondent for the
Standard
died of fever at Ladysmith. He was in Johannesburg, where he was well
known, in October 1899, and when war appeared imminent he decided on going to
Natal, and arrived in Ladysmith a few days before the battle of Talana Hill.
Thinking he would see more exciting work with Major General Sir W P Symons'
column, he endeavoured to get to Dundee; but on the way the train he was
travelling in was captured by the Boers. He was then made a prisoner, but
during the battle of Elandslaagte he succeeded in escaping. He remained on
the battlefield during the action, and later on returned to Ladysmith where he
served until his death. The South African campaign was his first experience
of active service as a war correspondent.
Mockford, H, Reuter, Date issued: 16 Feb 03
Mockford, P E, Reuter, Date issued: 20 Feb 03
QSA (0) to Mr. H.
Mockford, ‘Reuter’. Liverpool Nov 04 £1,600
Montague Bell, H T, The Times, Date issued: 20 Feb 03
Monypenny, W F, The Times, Date issued: 20 Feb 03
Also served ILH
Nevinson, A W, Daily Chronicle, Date issued: 16 Feb 03
Nissen, R C E, Central News, Date issued: 10 Jun 03
Oppenheim, A H, Daily News, Date issued: 27 Jan 03
Parslow, Edwin George, Daily Chronicle
Correspondent for the
Daily
Chronicle, was killed at Mafeking. He went to South Africa before the
Boer War and was engaged in journalism in Cape Colony. In October 1899, he
was at Mafeking, and remained there during the siege. This was his first
experience of warfare. He was buried at Mafeking.
Patterson, Andrew Burton, Reuter, Date issued: 16 Feb 03
Born
in NSW in 1864. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School, and acted as
correspondent to Reutcr's Agency, and to the Sydney Morning Herald
during the Boer War. He is the author of The Manjrom Snowy River, and
Rio Grande's Lost Race; also editor of the Sydney Evening News. He
married Alice, daughter of W H Walker, of Tenterfield.
Patterson, H F, Daily News, Date issued: 16 Dec 03
Paxton, H M, Sphere, Date issued: 12 Jun 03
Pearce, H H S , Daily News, Date issued: 14 Oct 03
Henry Hiram Steere Pearse was born on 13 May 1844,
at Yealmpton, Devon. He was educated privately in Penzance, and at
Plymiton Grammar School. As a young man he was an architect by
profession but he never qualified as such. He was also an enthusiastic
Volunteer, and was granted a Commission as an Ensign in the 2nd
Devonshire Rifle Volunteer Corps in March 1870, and promoted to
Lieutenant in November of the same year. He started to write on
military matters for the Western Morning News, and these articles led to
his connection with London journalists. His first important work was
that at the great manoeuvres on Dartmoor and on Cannock Chase in 1873,
when with the noted correspondent and journalist, Archibald Forbes, he
represented the Daily News, with which newspaper he was to be associated
until the end of 1900. His war service started in 1884 with Lord
Wolseley’s expedition in the Soudan for the relief of General Gordon. As
War Correspondent for the Daily News, Pearse accompanied the Desert
Column, under General Sir Herbert Stewart, across the desert, and was
present at the fierce battle of Abu Klea on 17 January 1885, when he was
severely wounded. In 1896, Pearse went on the Dongola expedition as War
Correspondent for the Daily Graphic, and he received for this service
the Khedive’s Sudan medal with clasps for Firket and Hafir. On the
outbreak of the Boer War in 1899, he was in Cape Town, where he was
representing the Daily News. From there he went to Durban, and was
present at Elandslaagte, and at the fighting preceeding the investment
of Ladysmith by the Boers. He was in Ladysmith throughout the siege, and
although never wounded he had some narrow escapes. The most striking of
these occurred on 3 November 1899, when a shell from the Boer battery
‘Long Tom’ passed through the ceiling and partition wall of a
colleague’s bedroom in the Royal Hotel where Pearse was living. Pearse
had the unexpected pleasure, on 28 Februray 1900, of being reunited with
his two sons who were both officers with the relieving column, one in
the South Africa Light Horse, the other in Thorneycroft’s Mounted
Infantry. After the relief of Ladysmith by General Buller’s force,
Pearse joined Lord Roberts’ army in the Transvaal, and was present at
all the principal actions, including the entry into Bloemfontein, and
the captures of Johannesburg and Pretoria. For his services in the Boer
War he received the Queen’s South Africa medal. As a hunting man Pearse
was well known under his ‘nom de plume’ of ‘Plantagenet’, in which name
he wrote week by week in The Field. He also wrote in Land and Water and
contributed to other journals. In 1904, Pearse went by special
invitation as a representative English journalist to the World’s Fair in
St Louis. His last active journalistic work appeared in the columns of
the Morning Post, to which newspaper he contributed within a few weeks
of his death. In addition to his numerous articles and despatches Pearse
was the author of Four Months Beseiged - The Story of Ladysmith,
published in 1900, and The History of Lumsden’s Horse, published in
1903. Henry Pearse died, exhausted in body and worldly means, at
Spetisbury, near Blandford, Dorset, on 1 April 1905, aged 60, after a
severe illness from which he had been suffering for some time, and which
was no doubt partly due to the privations he had suffered whilst on war
service.
QSA (0) (Mr. H. S. S. Pearse, “Daily News”);
Khedive’s Sudan (2) irket, Hafir. DNW Sep 03 £3,200.
Perkins, A E, Laffan, Date issued: 12 Feb 03
Pollock, Major
Arthur Williamson
Alsager, The Times, Date issued: 20 Feb 03
He was born July 3, 1853, and is the only son of Major William Pollock,
RA He was educated at Shrewsbury and the BNC, Oxford; joined the 13th
Somersetshire LI in 1875, and served in South Africa from 1876-9; was
present at the annexation of the Transvaal in 1877; served in the
operations against Sekukuni in 1878; took part in the Zulu War in 1879,
including the actions at Kambula and Ulundi (medal with clasp); the
Suakim Expedition in 1885, as transport officer of the 2nd Brigade;
present at the actions of Hashecn and Tofrek; and took part in the march
to Tamai (medal and two clasps, bronze star). He was a special Times
correspondent during the Boer War, 1899-1900; and is the author of
Simple Lectures for Company Field Training, With Seven Generals in the
Boer War, and various pamphlets, &c. he contributes to the Nineteenth
Century, Fortnightly, Monthly, and Contemporary Reviews, and edits the
United Service Magazine. Recreations : Rowing, hunting, and shooting. He
married, July 7, 1881, Edith, daughter of Copleston Lopes Radcliffe, of
Derriford, Devon.
Pontin, W, Melbourne Age, Date issued: 18 Apr 03
Prater, E, Sphere, Date issued: 12 Jun 03
Prior, Melton, Illustrated London News, Date issued: 17
Feb 03
Well-known in SA, where he has represented the Illustrated London News
on many occasions. His services on behalf of that paper have been
retained on the following occasions: Ashanti War, 1873; the Carlist
Rising, 1874; the Herzegovinian, Servian, Turkish, Basuto, Zulu, and
first Boer Wars; Egypt, 1882; the Sudan and Nile Expedition, the Burmese
War, the Jameson Raid episode of 1896, the Greco-Turkish War, and the
Tuchim rising of 1897. He was besieged in Ladysmith during the Boer War
of 1899-1902, and then represented his paper in the Russo-Japanese War.
In addition to these services as war artist, Mr Prior accompanied King
Edward's (then Prince of Wales) suite to Athens in 1875, travelled with
the Danish King's expedition through Iceland, accompanied the Marquess
and Marchioness of Lome on their first visit to Canada, and was present
at the Berlin Conference. In 1902 he left to represent his journal at
the Coronation Durbar at Delhi.
Pryor, S J , Daily Mail, Date issued: 5 Jun 03
QSA (0). Ebay Oct
05 £2665.
Ralph, Julian, Daily Mail, Date issued: 28 Feb 03
See Black & White
Budget 3 Feb 00
Reay, Lieutenant Colonel W T, Melbourne Herald
Reid, R E, Natal Witness, Date issued: 18 Apr 03
Rennett, F W, Laffan, Date issued: 12 Feb 03
Robertson, D, Morning Post, Date issued: 16 Feb 03
Rossites, A, Cape Argus, Date issued: 23 Feb 03
Salaman, S, Reuter, Date issued: 16 Feb 03
QSA (0) (Mr. S. Salaman, “Reuter”).
Officially re-impressed. Fire damaged. DNW Jun 98 £200.
Scott, E D, Manchester Courier, Date issued: 23 Feb 03
Correspondent for the
Manchester Courier, was killed on the railway at Rietfontein, near
Elandsfonteln, July 26th, 1902. He belonged to a prominent Manchester family,
was born in February 1857, and for some years was a partner in the firm of G F
Scott & Co, Mosley Street. He was fond of adventure and travelling and in
1894, giving up business, went to South Africa with Captain J A Turner, of
Winsford, Cheshire. They then went to Mafeking, to the Victoria Falls, and
into the Barotse Country, and to King Lewanika's kraal. When the South
African War broke out Mr Scott placed his knowledge at the service of the
Manchester Courier, and acted as their war correspondent. He first served
with Lieutenant General Lord Methuen's column, and was present at the actions
of Graspan and Magersfontein. He subsequently accompanied the army under
Field Marshal Earl Roberts to Paardeberg, and was present at that battle and
at Cronje's surrender. At Driefontein he was wounded in the leg, but
recovering proceeded to Bloemfontein, and took part in the advance to
Johannesburg and Pretoria. He then moved eastwards with the army under Field
Marshal Earl Roberts, and afterwards accompanied the force under General Sir R
Buller, to Lydenburg. He subsequently saw much service up to the end of the
war.
Scott, J, Natal Witness, Date issued: 18 Apr 03
Scott, W O, Illustrated London News, Date issued: 17
Feb 03
QSA (0) to (Mr W O
Scott ''Illustrated London News''), officially impressed.
Dixon Nov 04 £1,650
Sheldon, J, Daily Chronicle, Date issued: 16 Feb 03
Shelley, H C, Westminster Gazette, Date issued: 17 Feb
03
Skea, A D, Reuter, Date issued: 16 Feb 03
Smith, A E, Reuter, Date issued: 16 Feb 03
Smith, E W , Morning Leader, Date issued: 17 Apr 03
Smith, W R , Montreal Star, Date issued: 27 Jan 04
Somerset, H C S A, The Times, Date issued: 20 Feb 03
Squire, W A, Natal Mercury, Date issued: 18 Apr 03
Steevens, George W, Daily Mail, Date issued: 23 Feb 03
The
well-known correspondent of the Daily Mail, died at Ladysmith of
enteric during the siege. He first made his mark as a member of the staff of
the Pall Mall Gazette. After a connection of four years with that
journal, he joined the Daily Mail, and as its correspondent, he wrote
the series of articles "With Kitchener to Khartoum".
Stewart, F A, Illustrated Sport / Dra News, Date
issued: 2 Sep 03
Stuart, J, Morning Post, Date issued: 16 Feb 03
Swallow, J A, Central News, Date issued: 10 Jun 03
Toplin, V, Daily Express, Date issued: 5 Jun 03
Tottenham, R A, Morning Post, Date issued: 16 Feb 03
Unger, F, Daily Express, Date issued: 5 Jun 02
Villiers, F, Illustrated London News, Date issued: 17
Feb 03
“He has twelve
English and Foreign war medals, clasps and decorations, and has been
practically everywhere where fighting was to be seen since 1876” – The
Illustrated War News of 12 Aug 14
Walker, F W, Daily Express, Date issued: 5 Jun 03
Weakley, H, Reuter, Date issued: 16 Feb 03
Weld-Blundell, H, Morning Post, Date issued: 16 Feb 03
Whales, G A, Daily Chronicle, Date issued: 16 Feb 03
Whigham, H J, Morning Post, Date issued: 16 Feb 03
Acted as one of the correspondents of the Morning Post during the Boer
War in 1899-1902. He also served in China on the occasion of the Boxer
outbreak. Subsequently he made a tour of the Persian Gulf, writing a
series of articles on international interests in that quarter of the
globe, and since then he has acted as Special Correspondent to the
Morning Post in Macedonia.
White, H S, Montreal Star, Date issued: 12 Feb 03
Wilkinson, F, Sidney Daily Telegraph, Date issued: 18
May 03
Williams, T J,
Willis, J, Reuter, Date issued: 16 Feb 03
Wollen, W B, Sphere, Date issued: 12 Jun 03
Wright, Captain H, Cape Times, Date issued: 12 Feb 03
Wyndham, C, Daily Mail, Date issued: 26 Mar 08
Young, Filson, Daily Mail, Date issued: 9 Dec 00
Young, R D, Natal Witness, Date issued: 18 Apr 03
Portrait in The
Sphere of 6 Feb 15, page iv, while serving with the RN and David
Beatty’s staff
Barry, D P, Christchurch Weekly Times. Medal issued and returned 24 Mar 04,
owner not traced
QSA (0) (Mr. D. P. Barry, “Christchurch Weekly
Press”). DNW Sep 98 £750.
Churchill, Winston, Morning Post. Also served as Lieutenant in the SALH
Cummings, J, Daily Telegraph / Reuter. Medal not issued
Cunningham, D, Daily Telegraph. Medal not issued
Dunn, J S, Central News, Also served Scottish Horse. Deceased.
DNW Dec 06. Letter and Postmarked Envelope,
from Joseph S. Dunn, War Correspondent for the Central News to John
Burton Esq., The Old Curiosity Shop, Falmouth, England, dated
‘Ladysmith, Natal, Jan. 26th 1900’, in addition to the address the
envelope is inscribed, ‘Ladysmith Siege no stamps obtainable’ and is
postmarked, ‘Ladysmith, Natal, 1 Feb. 1900’.
Earl De la Warre, Globe. Name struck off. Previously served in Bethune’s
Mounted Infantry
Earl of Rosslyn, Daily Mail, Name struck out. Also served TMI
Greig, D C, Daily Telegraph. Medal not issued
Lord Somerset, H, Central News. Name struck out
Lynch, G, Illustrated London News. Name struck out
Nicholls, H, South Africa. Name struck out
Rhodes, Colonel F, The Times. Name struck out
Stent, Vere, Reuter, Name struck out. Present at Mafeking
Traill, H D, The Times, Medal not issues. Owner not traced. Duplicate
issue medal and clasps issued of Brabant’s Horse
Wallace, Edgar, Daily Mail. Name struck through with comment ‘case still
under investigation’. Note of 14 Jul 02 saying medal not to be issued
Wilson, Lady
Sarah, Daily Mail. Name struck through. Issued off Mafeking nurses’ roll 4
Feb 03
Adams, Mr
Albert Julian
Exchange
Telegraph Company, died of fever at Bloemfontein.
Inder, Mr
William Sidney
Correspondent for the
Westmorland Gazette, who died of pneumonia at Bloemfontein, January 7th,
1902 was the eldest son of Mr W S Inder, Excise Officer, Kendal, was born in
December 1879, and educated at Yeovil, and Kendal Grammar School. He was
fond of all outdoor pursuits and games, and a very good football player. Mr
W S Inder formerly belonged to the 2nd Volunteer Battalion of the Border
Regiment, but when the war broke out was a member of the St John's Ambulance
Brigade. He offered his services, and being accepted he proceeded to South
Africa in November 1899, and served in the base hospital at Wynberg, and was
quickly promoted to be sergeant. On completing six months service he
returned with invalids but as the war continued he again volunteered, and
after spending one Sunday with his parents at Kendal he again embarked in
June 1900. Having served for twelve months at Wynberg and at Nourse Deep,
near Johannesburg, he was appointed to the Imperial Military Railways at
Bloemfontein with excellent prospects, but in December 1901, was taken ill.
He acted as war correspondent to the Westmorland Gazette during the
time he was in South Africa. He was in possession of the St John's
Ambulance medal and the South African War medal with three clasps. He was
buried in the old cemetery at Bloemfontein.
Kingsley,
Miss Mary
Correspondent of the Morning Post, died at Simonstown on Whit Sunday,
1900, of fever, and from the results of an operation. She had assisted to
nurse the sick of the Boer prisoners of war. By her expressed wish she was
buried at sea. The coffin, with her remains, was taken to the Pier at
Simonstown on Whit Monday, the procession being headed by the band of the West
Yorkshire Regiment. It was then placed on board Torpedo Boat No 29, was taken
out to sea, and committed to the deep.
Spooner, Mr H
H
Correspondent for the
Evening
News, Sydney, NSW, died of fever at Deelfontein.
Others
Gottstein, Hermann Hans
Born
in Germany, and was educated at the University towns of Breslau and
Leipzig. Since 1894 he has been associated with South Africa in the
mining industry. He took part in the Jameson raid in 1895 as officer
under Colonel Wollaston. In 1899 he was in Germany and Austria in
connection with an industrial concession, granted him by the Boer
Government, which was to be taken up by the Prince Henckel Donersmarck
group. During the Boer War he acted as special war correspondent for the
Berlin Lokalanzeiger and Die Woche with General Buller's column, holding
that appointment until the beginning of 1901. At the close of war he
gave a course of lectures in Germany. Subsequently he was connected with
Laffans, and did special work for the Daily Express, Daily Mail, Times,
New York Herald, and Svd Africa (formerly Burenjreund) and now
represents in London the journals Plutus, the International Economist (Volkswirt),
and other Continental papers. He is the author of a book on the Mines of
the Transvaal, and 5. African Tales and Sketches (under the pseudonym of
Hans Hermann).
Weinthal, Leo
Born at Graaff Reinet, Cape Colony, in 1865, and was educated at Hamburg
starting business for himself in 1884 at Port Elizabeth. Proceeding to
the Transvaal in 1887, he established a State lithographic department
for the Government, and was for some years General Manager for Mr J B
Robinson's Transvaal newspapers, and representative of the interests of
his group at Pretoria. He was Reuter's Agent at Pretoria from 1888 to
1897, and acted at various times as Special Correspondent in the
Transvaal for the Times and Daily Telegraph. During the Anglo Boer War
Mr Weinthal was Special War Correspondent for Laffans News Bureau, the
New York Sun, and the Chicago Record. After the British occupation he
left for Europe, and spent some time on the East Coast of Africa in
order to write and compile a popular English handbook for the German
Line, entitled Round Africa by the DOA Line, which had a good reception.
On his return he decided to remain in England, and in 1902 established
The African World, the only London weekly dealing regularly with
important developments in all parts of the dark Continent. The African
World has since absorbed the African Review, and the Anglo-African
Argus, and has made a reputation for itself by publishing a voluminous
Annual issue, and occasional special editions, which are admitted to be
quite unique both for their artistic, literary, and pictorial contents.
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