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Input is solicited from the learned members here. I recently acquired what was termed a Family grouping of medals to the surname Erasmus. On this occasion Noonan's had employed poetic licence as, after the most rudimentary check, it was soon discovered that they were not family at all...

Nevertheless, one of the medals was an ABO to Burger Cornelius (Cornelis) Martinus Erasmus - there are three such on the rolls but, fortuitously, only one had the Type 3 naming - this then helped Dewald Nel and I to determine that my medal was to the CM Erasmus who claimed his medal in 1941.



Now for the mystery... as you can see - the cover sheet for his ABO file states that he was in the Bethlehem Cdo - it is here where I think the clerks missed a trick - have a close look at the Vorm B where he states which commando he served in - to my mind this looks more like the Bethal Commando which makes more sense if you look further right and see who he served under.



The clincher is his POW report - he was clearly from the Ermelo area (close to Bethal) - more so than Bethlehem which is in the OFS. What say members? Am I correct and the clerks, all those years ago, wrong?



Regards

Rory