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It gets better! The SANLC (Corps) is my favourite SA unit of WW1. The medals to the white NCOs are nearly as scarce as Cape Infantry QSAs.

In my experience these guys have a rich and interesting story, they are usually older than the average soldier in WW1 as they have long experience in working with Africans, are multi-lingual and serial enlisters in WW1 keen to do their bit. His ABW story maybe interesting too, many SANLC NCOs I've come across worked on the mines which gave them experience managing Africans. As Murphy was in/about Cape Town during the ABW perhaps he was a refugee from the Rand in 1899.

Let us know what the service papers say.

QSAMIKE wrote: The War Medal is named: Cpl. W. J. Murphy, S.A.N.L.C. (South African Native Labour Corps) [ Contingent?]

Mike

OH Yes the ribbon on the QSA is original silk......

SWB wrote: Evening Mike - well done, a good punt!

SA WW1 medal naming can be a right mess.

The WWI unit is SA??

Hope his WW1 papers provide a good read for you.

Picture courtesy of BobShop

QSA (0) (Pte L. D. Becker. Cape Infty:)

Would this be the 'Cape Infantry' that was formed as a full-time element of the Cape Peninsula Regiment (i.e. Cape Peninsula town guards) in February 1902, and disbanded later in the year?