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I think the last missing word is “Subdivision”. I imagine the word(s) before Subdivision might have been something like “table of the”, but that is a pure guess.

At 11 a.m. on the 16th of Jan’y 1891 two? of my medal(s) and clasps for Burmah 1887 - /89 and 1885 to 1887 on my tunic on the (table of the?) Subdivision Room of the 2nd Battalion ….

Neville

'' at 11am on the 18th of January 1891. I lost my medal and clasps for Burmah 1887 - 189 and 1885 to - 1887 from my tunic on the (?) Subdivision Room of the 2nd Battalion(?)

Thanks Neville & Mark; you have helped to nail it.

Thanks.

Can anybody identify the place?



The man wounded was serving in the 2nd Royal Warwicks at the time and was invalided home and back in England by 31 May 1900.

Not sure if this helps, but the man in question christened one of his twin daughters born in Q1 1901 in Banbury, Oxfordshire as "Lizzie Kariefontein". I can't find Kariefontein on a map but there are 3 references to such a place on this site in articles regarding Robert's Horse. In each case it is stated as being near Leeuwkop which appears to be about 16 miles east of Kimberley. Sadly the death of Lizzie Kariefontein was registered in the same quarter she was born in.

The place name is "Leeuwkop" (not that you would know it from the handwritten entry).

The 2nd Warwicks suffered eight casualties there during an engagement on 22 April.

Meurig Jones (1999): In order to delay the British advance on Dewetsdorp and protect convoys retiring on Thaba Nchu, Veg-Gen H.R. Lemmer took up a position across the Bloemfontein - Dewetsdorp road with his principal strength on Leeuwkop on his left. On 22 April 1900, Lt-Gen R. Pole-Carew, commanding the 11th Division, successfully attacked the central position, leaving the Boers in command of only their left flank on Leeuwkop, but they evacuated this position during the night.

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Two farms named Karreefontein were situated immediately to the northeast of Leeuwkop (shown in purple on the 1907 Stanford's map below).







By overlaying current mapping onto that of 1907, it is possible to locate the highest point of the Leeuwkop range in relation to the old farm layout. It was on the boundary between Karreefontein (110) and Karreefontein (733), and not on Leeuwkop farm itself. The blue circle indicates its approximate location.




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