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A range of Rifle Association medals offered of late:

DNW Jul 18, Lot 605
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Leader F. N. Meyer, Camperdown Dist. R.A.) minor edge nick, nearly extremely fine, rare to unit £80-120
Sold for £360

DNW Jul 18, Lot 637
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Tpr. W. Webster. Malton Dist. R.A.) extremely fine and rare to unit £80-120
Sold for £170

DNW Jul 18, Lot 646
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Tpr. D. Connell. Nottingham Road R.A.) extremely fine, scarce to unit £80-120
Sold for £220

And today this medal


Picture courtesy of DNW

QSA (0) (President G. Ross. Howick R.A.).

Hammered at £280.

The task of plotting the location of the medal-issuing Rifle Associations in Natal was more difficult than I imagined.

If anyone has more accurate locations for Upper Tugela and Mtshwati (in particular) and the other manually-named towns, please let me know and I will update the map.

[The map has been updated and appears in a later post]

Hello David

Wilgefontein is to the left of Fox Hill about 10 kms down around just above between the M and G in Umgeni

Regards

Thank you. So close to Umlaas?

David

I have understood that 'Upper Tugela' is the present day districts of Winterton and Bergville, so I would point the arrow to the circle for Bethany, which I presume was (and perhaps still is) a mission station in that area.

Regards
Brett

Hello David

Umlaas is about 30kms to the right of Wilgefontein from where I have placed it on the map you are using.

Regards