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DNW do not mention it but that Belfast clasp is a copy.

The only entry I have found for W F Ricardo is the QSA roll (WO100/112p41) which lists Transvaal rather than Belfast. His biography does mention Belfast so either this is a roll error of there is another entry for him.



There are some Belfast clasps to the RHG but it is uncommon to this unit.

Picture courtesy of Noonan's

QSA (5) Cape Colony, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (153 Tpr: R. Nicholson. R.H. Gds:);
1914 Star, with clasp (153 Tpr. R. Nicholson. R.H. Gds:);
British War and Victory Medals (153 Tpr. R. Nichgolson. R.H. Gds.);
Coronation 1911, unnamed as issued;
Army LS&GC Ed VII (153 Pte. R. H. Nicholson. R. Horse Gds.)

Robert Nicholson served with the Royal Horse Guards during the Great War on the Western Front from 15 August 1914.

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Picture courtesy of Morton and Eden

QSA (6) Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (181 Tpr: F. Pope, R.H. Gds:);
Coronation 1902, unnamed as issued;
Army LS&GC Ed VII (1044 Tpr F. Pope. Rl: Horse Gds.)

Together with ‘Royal Horse Guards’ cloth should title.

Frederick Pope, of Brading, on the Isle of Wight, was born c.1871 and enlisted for service with the Royal Horse Guards in 1889. Serving for a total of 21 years with the Household Cavalry, he took part in the Second Anglo Boer War and also appears to have been present at the Coronation of Edward VII in 1902. M&E say his entitlement to the Coronation Medal is not currently confirmed).