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DCM GV (1192 Sjt: F.Stevens. 3/Regt; S.A.M.R.);
QSA (2) Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (116 Serjt. F.Stevens. P'Burgh L.H.);
Natal (1) 1906 (Tpr: F.Stevens, Natal Police);
1914-15 Star (Sjt. F.Stevens 3rd. S.A.M.R);
BWM (Sjt. F.Stevens 3rd. S.A.M.R);
VM (Sjt. F.Stevens 3rd. S.A.M.R;
South Africa Police Good Service Medal (No 8013 (M) 1/C Sergeant. F.Stevens. (D.C.M)

DCM: Supplement to LG 22/8/1918, p9801 - for distinguished service in the Field, in connection with the campaign in German South West Africa, 1914-15 - to 1192 Sjt. F.Stevens, 3rd Regt S.A.M.R.

Information from the book titled The Bushveldt Carbineers and the Pietersburg Light Horse by William (Bill) Woolmore, p273,

Stevens Frank, Sergeant, No.116 (A Squadron, BVC): Born Montreal, Canada, on 10 October 1873. No previous service claimed. Enlisted in the BVC at Durban on 12 March 1901 - age 27, bridge builder, height 5'10 1/2", 168 lb, grey eyes, light hair, blind in right eye. NOK: father, Frank Stevens, 116 Six St, Montreal, Canada. He was with the patrol when Lieutenant Lewis allegedly attempted to shoot Trooper Homann (BVC) for suspected treachery near Pietersburg (Trooper R.M.Cochrane's letter to Major Bolton).
He served with A Squadron under Captain Robertson in the Spelonken and, on 2 July 1901, was at the head of the squad from which the advance patrol was selected to intercept and shoot the six Boers who were believed to be coming in to surrender. He was fortunate not to be included in the party. Discharged at Pretoria on 6 December 1901. Served subsequently as No.5 in the East Griqualand Mounted Volunteers, and later as No.623 in the Natal Volunteer Composite Regiment. His QSA was named 'Pietersburg Light Horse' and he qualified for the clasps Transvaal, SA 1901 & SA 1902.

After the war he joined the Natal Border Police and then the Natal Police with which he served during the Zulu Rebellion of 1906 and earned the Natal Medal with 1906 bar. He had militia service with the 2nd South African Mounted Rifles, and when World War I broke out in 1914 he was ready to serve with them. He fought in the 1915 campaign in German South West Africa with the South African Mounted Rifles, and for his gallantry was awarded the DCM (Distinguished Conduct Medal).

He was also the recipient of the South African Police 'Voor Troue Dienst' (For Faithful Service) medal. His medals are pictured on the dustjacket of this volume.'

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QSA (3) Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (9314 Pte. R. W. Mc.Bride. Border Horse.);
KSA (2) (404 Tpr: R. W. Mc.Bride. Piettersburg L.H.)

Robert Wallace McBride, a native of Templepatrick, Co Antrim, was born in 1880 and attested for the Border Horse on 22 June 1900. He served with them during the Boer War, and subsequently with Warren’s Mounted Infantry from 25 February 1901; Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts from 3 June 1901; and the Pietersburg Light Horse (Bushveldt Carabineers) from 3 December 1901. He was discharged on 2 June 1902.

Sold for a hammer price of £650. Totals (inc VAT for UK only): £837. R16,400. Au$1,430. Can$1,240. US$920

The medals to different men.


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QSA (1) Transvaal (446 Tpr: J. Seymour. Pietersburg Lt Horse.);

[ QSA ];
KSA (2) (Lieut: G. Seton-Burn. P’Burg LH.);
[ Great War medals ]

Described as:

J. Seymour of the Pietersburg Light Horse is confirmed on the medal roll, and enlisted for service in the P.L.H. on 30 December 1901, and was discharged when the unit was disbanded on 3 July 1902. Ex Dr. S. M. Kaplan, of Germiston, South Africa, 23 November, 1971. Lieutenant Augustus

George William Seton-Burn served initially in South Africa as a Corporal with the elite Rimington’s Guides, and saw significant action during that time. He was later promoted to Lieutenant with the Army Service Corps on 22 January 1900, and was taken as a prisoner of war at Sannah’s Post on 31 March 1900. He resigned from the A.S.C. on 30 November 1901 and joined the Pietersburg Light Horse on its first day - 1 December 1901, until the cessation of hostilities – with entitlement to an 8-clasp Q.S.A. (this offered at Spink, in March 1997). In his civilian life a pattern of fraud and forgery began to emerge around him, and in WWI he was appointed Captain (temp.) on 28 November 1914, however his issues of ‘intemperance and unreliability’ followed him, until he was eventually arrested for drunkenness and forced to resign his commission. Convicted for obtaining money by false pretenses on 26 July 1915, with a sentence to one month’s imprisonment with hard labour, he afterwards joined the Gordon Highlanders as a Private in an attempt to regain his honour. On 1 April, 1916, he was killed in action on the Western Front (as stated in ‘The Bushveldt Carbineers and the Pietersburg Light Horse' by Bill Woolmore.