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The 18th Hussars is one of my favourite regiments. My collection includes the QSAs of:

4261 Pte. P. Grieve clasp Talana
4158 Pte. H.Woodley clasps Talana/DL
4668 Pte. A.Dineen clasps OFS/Belfast/LN
3723 Pte. F.Owen clasps OFS/Belfast/LN/SA01
4607 Pte.T Birkenshaw clasps DL/OFS/Tr/LN/SA01
3872 Pte. C.Porter clasps OFS/Belfast/LN/SA01

Regards

David

Hi David,

Thank you for your reply.
I thought my original information was reliable as this was a purchase from Brett

Regards
Paul

davidh wrote: Hi Paul

Oakes is shown in 'In Memoriam' and 'The 18th Hussars in South Africa' as having died of enteric in Ladysmith 15/2/1900. He served in 'A' squadron and is buried at Intombi Cemetery. No grave marker survives.

Trust you're keeping well.

Cheers

David

Hi David,

An enviable collection.
My contribution.

davidh wrote: The 18th Hussars is one of my favourite regiments. My collection includes the QSAs of:

4261 Pte. P. Grieve clasp Talana
4158 Pte. H.Woodley clasps Talana/DL
4668 Pte. A.Dineen clasps OFS/Belfast/LN
3723 Pte. F.Owen clasps OFS/Belfast/LN/SA01
4607 Pte.T Birkenshaw clasps DL/OFS/Tr/LN/SA01
3872 Pte. C.Porter clasps OFS/Belfast/LN/SA01

Regards

David

There is a letter written around May 1900 from Ladysmith by Lieutenant Cecil Faulkner Cawston offered on Ebay (wrongly identified in the lsiting as Clive Cawston) Cawston was a Roodepoort casualty. Perhaps a nice item to own for someone who already has his medals.

Write up on the man on this site:
He died of wounds received February 2nd, 1901, in action at Roodepoort. He was the son of George Cawston, one of the founders of the British South Africa Company. He was born in April 1878, educated at Eton, and entered the 18th Hussars in April 1898. He joined his regiment in the spring of 1899 in Natal, and was employed before the war surveying the country round Ladysmith. He was at Dundee when the war broke out, and was present at the battle of Talana Hill and in the retirement to Ladysmith, where he served throughout the siege. Lieutenant Cawston was invalided home with dysentery, but, recovering, returned to South Africa in September 1900, and was with his regiment until he was mortally wounded while in front of a patrol which he was leading.

(Ebay item: 352107007273)