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From today's City Coins auction, 27 November 2020

Tontelboschkolk, 27 December 1901

On 25 December, Capt Bertram of the WPMR decided to re-occupy Tontelboschkolk. Leaving Sutherland late evening with 80 men, he relied on night marches to evade the Rebels. He was not aware that the Boer commandos were busy harvesting wheat on the farm, and, as his column crossed the Fish River at daybreak on the 27th December, they were spotted by sentries.
The Boers had excellent cover in the farmhouses, kraals and the forts and easily succeeded in “convincing” Bertram to retreat with 5 of his men wounded.

QSA (1) CC (792 Tpr. T. Billingham, W. Prov. M. R.)

Trooper Billingham was one of the 5 men wounded in the above-mentioned incident.

Here are a few more David......

CROSBIE, B.

REG. NO.: 1316
RANK: TROOPER
REGT: WESTERN PROVINCE MOUNTED RIFLES
BARS: CAPE COLONY, DRIEFONTEIN

PHILLIPS, L. P.

REG. NO.: NONE
RANK: LIEUTENANT
REGT: WESTERN PROVINCE MOUNTED RIFLES
BARS: CAPE COLONY, SOUTH AFRICA 1901, SOUTH AFRICA 1902

and

MARAIS, J. A. (JOHN ANDREW)

REG. NO.: 60
RANK: TROOPER
REGT: STEYTERVILLE DISTRICT MOUNTED TROOPS
BARS: NO BARS AS ISSUED

REMARKS / HISTORY: 93 MEDALS ISSUED TO UNIT
ALSO SERVED IN:

WESTERN PROVINCE MOUNTED RIFLES, 557 TROOPER, J.A. MARAIS
CAPE COLONY CYCLIST CORPS, 23799 PRIVATE J.A. MARAIS
DORDRECHT TOWN GUARD, 75 PRIVATE J. MARAIS

Mike

Thanks, Mike. A very nice selection.

The QSA to Lt Woolf is available from Liverpool Medals for £395. It sold for a total of £260 at City Coins.

Picture courtesy of JB Military Antiiques

QSA (1) CAPE COLONY, (Lt G.O. Schmidts. Prov. M.R.)

Described as:

Comes with copy medal roll. Lieutenant Gustav Otto Schmidt served with Colonel De Lisle’s column as per note on the roll. General Sir Henry de Beauvoir De Lisle, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., D.S.O., who during the Second Boer War, commanded the Australian Brigade, a mobile column comprising the 6th Battalion Mounted Infantry, the West Australian Mounted Infantry, the South Australian Imperial Bushmen and the New South Wales Mounted Rifles. He is also entitled to the clasp Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902. He may also be the Gustav Schmidt who served with the Buffalo Volunteer Rifles and is also entitled to the South Africa Medal with clasp 1877-8 (Gaika-Gcaleka War). Lt Schmidt is named Schmidts on his medal, but Schmidt on the roll.

Picture courtesy of Noonan's

QSA (2) Cape Colony, Orange Free State (307 Tpr: S. G. Malin. W. Prov: M.R.);
British War and Victory Medals (57562 Rflm. S. G. Malin. N.Z.E.F.)

Sidney Gilbert Malin. Also served 1475 Bethune's MI.

CC on WO100/278p187. OFS from BMI on WO100/236p209. SA01 and SA02 on BMI WO100/236p264