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QSA (4) Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (Col: R. F. Johnson. R.G.A.) officially engraved naming.

Colonel Richard Francis Johnson served in the South African War of 1900-01 and commanded a Brigade of Artillery at Cape Town from January to April 1900. He was subsequently Senior Transport Officer, IX Division, between April and June 1900; commanded the Royal Garrison Artillery, Pretoria District, from June 1900 to September 1901; took part in the operations in Cape Colony between January and April 1900, and in the Transvaal from June to 29 November 1900, and again to September 1901 (Despatches London Gazette 10 September 1901; Queen’s medal with 4 clasps; CMG).

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QSA (4) Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (Lieut: R. A. E. Hill, R.F.A.) officially engraved naming

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QSA (5) Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (49947 C.S. Major E. Holmes, 16th S.D., R.G.A.)

Severely wounded at Geluk’s Farm on 24 August 1900.

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QSA (5) Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut: H. R. Hill, 77/R.F.A.) officially engraved naming

Hugh Rowley Hill was accidentally killed at Harrismith on 28 July 1902. He was born in February 1880, and entered the Royal Artillery in November 1899, and was promoted Lieutenant in February 1901.

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QSA (5) Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (57513 Sgt. Clerk A. Gobbitt, R.H.A.);
[ LS&GC Ed VII ]

Alfred Gobbitt was born at Woodbridge, Suffolk, and enlisted for the Royal Artillery at Colchester on 25 October 1886, aged 19 years 3 months, a clerk by trade. Posted to the Royal Horse Artillery, he was appointed Corporal in December 1892 and transferred to District Staff R.A. as a Lieutenant-Colonel’s Clerk in December 1894, becoming Sergeant in the same appointment in April 1896. He was promoted to Master Gunner 3rd Class in January 1900 and posted to the Southern District, but then transferred as a Sub-Conductor to the Army Ordnance Corps in December 1900. He served overseas in India from February 1889 to November 1892; in South Africa from December 1899 to August 1900; and at Bermuda from October 1902 to May 1905, during which service he was promoted to Conductor in July 1903. He was discharged on 2 July 1905, in consequence of a ‘tubercle of lung’.

LS&GC (without Gratuity) announced in Army Order 68 of 1905.

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QSA (6) Cape Colony, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (18247 S. Major T. Fogarty. R.F.A.)