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Higgs115
Thanks for posting the 62 RFA battery group photo. The QSA medal roll WO/100 page 53 for 62RFA shows your GGF as "19909 Driver George Higgs" with the illustrated clasps. A marginal note says "Transferred, serving with 2nd Local Ammunition Column, South Africa".
Regards
IL.

Hello Ian,
I had not noted his name had already been given, George Higgs had indeed been posted from the 62nd Battery on the 11th of July 1900, I dare say he might have felt a degree of relief, being a Driver had not changed all that much since Waterloo and you could certainly expect to be in the thick of it whilst on campaign.
Regards Frank

LinneyI wrote: Higgs115
Thanks for posting the 62 RFA battery group photo. The QSA medal roll WO/100 page 53 for 62RFA shows your GGF as "19909 Driver George Higgs" with the illustrated clasps. A marginal note says "Transferred, serving with 2nd Local Ammunition Column, South Africa".
Regards
IL.

Hello Ian,
Is that the number, 22245, that is actually impressed upon the medal, it always amuses me when you compare the way things were back in those days with the situation today, to be posted to a Battery after just four weeks or so at a Depot.
I note his father lived in St Lukes, I was in EC1 recently, I also know the Bastwick Street area, I very much doubt if Tutin would recognise much if he visited these days.
Regards Frank,

LinneyI wrote: David/gendancer
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QSA bars NATAL/MODDER RIVER/PAARDEBURG/JOHANNESBURG/SA1901 to "22245 Gnr. J.R.TUTIN, 62nd Bty: RFA"
BWM to "30987 Pte J.R.TUTIN, HOUSEHOLD B"
VM to "30987 Pte J.R.TUTIN, G.Gds"
ISM to "John Robert TUTIN"
John Robert TUTIN took his discharge in September 1909 after serving 12 years at Home, SA, India and Home again. He re-enlisted in November 1915 and served in the Post Office Rifles and then in April 1918 was posted to 5th Bn, GG.
John Robert TUTIN's WW1 service got really serious on 26091918 when he was posted Guards Div. Base Depot, BEF, France with qualification noted as Lewis Gunner. He served overseas until Febuary, 1919 and was finally discharged in March of 1920.
Regards
IL.

Frank
My note book says "22245" and a dig in the cabinet shows "22243" - Oh well, IL sometimes misses on the range, too. I always liked the Tutin group. Came from a US dealer a decade or more ago and I had never seen the combination of "Natal" and "Modder River" before. And the story of the 62RFA at Modder River - plus the illustration shown by Higgs115 - gives substance (if it were ever needed) to Kipling's "UBIQUE".
"Extreme, depressed, point blank or short, end first or any 'ow
From Colesburg Kop to Quagga's Poort - from ninety nine to now -
By what I've heard the others tell an' I in spots have seen
There's nothin' this side 'Eaven or 'Ell Ubique doesn't mean!"
Best regards
IL.

Hello Ian,
I think it is a lovely group, the QSA in particular, I was just curious when I noted his number, Rudyard Kipling really was the poet of Empire, and that is certainly a favourite verse, although, I am not an artillery collector when it comes to medals, I certainly do admire them in respect of the pre 1914 golden age, before the world went mad.
Regards Frank

A picture of 62 Bty in 1899 "the gun competition winning team)