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Medals to Brabant's Horse 7 months 1 week ago #96147

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QSA (4) Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (20587 Tpr: J. Carney. Brabant’s Horse.);
British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. J. J. Carney.)

John Joseph Carney served during the Boer War as a Trooper with the 2nd Brabant’s Horse. He later served on the Western Front from September 1917, firstly as a Second Lieutenant in the Durham Light Infantry and later as a Lieutenant in the Chinese Labour Corps; initially detailed to free troops for front line duties, the Chinese labourers of 1918-20 were heavily engaged in the dangerous work of clearing the battlefields of ordnance and assisting with the rebuilding of communities in France and Belgium. Their work was hampered by a language barrier and outbreaks of disease, notably cholera at the worker’s camp of Noyelles-sur-Mer; the local cemetery contains the graves of 842 men of the C.L.C., each engraved with Chinese characters and guarded by two stone lions, gifts from China.
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Medals to Brabant's Horse 7 months 4 days ago #96208

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TROOPER CHARLES ROBERT LINTON: 2ND BATTALION BRABANT'S HORSE.

According to the Nominal Roll for the regiment, Charles Robert Linton enlisted into Brabant's Horse on 5th February 1900. I can find no regimental number pertaining to his service. This may be because he is recorded as discharged on 20th February 1900 after just 15 days service!

Findmypast was the next port of call for me where we see that Charles attested to Nesbitt's Horse on 8th October 1900 at Drie Vleis. He declared his age to be 22 and born in 1878 in Australia. He conveniently decided not to inform the recruitment officer of his 15 day stint with Brabant's Horse, but did confess to being a butcher by trade.

He took his discharge at some point from Nesbitt's outfit and is next seen as 413 Corporal with the Port Elizabeth Town Guard.

He appears to have come through the war unscathed, having found no record of him in the casualty lists, and married Adriana Joubert on 22nd October 1903 at Uitenhage where he was employed as a shunter on the railways.

In his later years he resided at 288 Market Street, Fairview, Johannesburg and lived until 67 years of age, dying on 30th June 1945 from cardiac failure and terminal bronchi-pneumonia from which complaint he had suffered for the last few years of his life.
This old Australian soldier's remains were interred at Braamfontein Cemetery in Johannesburg (source: Familysearch).

Queen's South Africa medal with single clasp for service in Cape Colony awarded to Trooper Charles Robert Linton.



Officially impressed rank and name to the rim.


Officially impressed regimental naming to the rim.
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Medals to Brabant's Horse 7 months 3 days ago #96212

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Steve,

It is interesting that the authorities chose to name to medal to BrH and not NeH.

There is no BrJ attestation that I can see. Here is his NeH from which you already have the information.

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QSA (4) Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901 (Tpr. G. A. Gross Brabants Horse.) Impressed.

George Augustus Gross, Department Manager and Salesman, born 1879 at Newcastle NSW; Enlisted 19 Jun 1900 at Queenstown, South Africa in A Sqn 1st Brabants Horse; served in ops against the Boers near Reitzburg and on the Basuto Border to Bethlehem and across the Vaal Aug1900 and to South West Cape Colony; Discharged 9 Feb 1901 at Cape Town; Died 1946.

Noble say 'Also entitled to King's South Africa Medal with clasp South Africa 1901.' but this is incorrect. He is entitled to the SA01 clasp on his QSA, as per WO100/237p146

Firth three QSA clasps on WO100/237p40
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QSA (4) Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (Corpl: R. Spicer. Brabant’s Horse) suspension claw re-affixed;
1914-15 Star (34804 Pte R. H. Spicer. 2/Can: Div: H.Q.);
British War and Victory Medals, with MID (Capt. R. H. Spicer.)

Together with riband bar, a Canadian Boer War Welcome Home medal, silver, a 1910 Gold Sovereign Coin Edward VII, mounted in a sterling silver and enamel surround worded ‘B. S. Sons Of England’, by A. Kent& Sons, and a Masonic Past President’s Jewel suspension engraved to the recipient as part of the Middlesex Lodge.

MID London Gazette 28 December 1917.

Richard Henry Spicer was born in Sussex, England in January 1878. He served during the Second Boer War in South Africa; for 2 years 9 months service with Royal Canadian Dragoons; and, 9 years, 5 months Canadian Ordnance Corps. Spicer advanced to Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant Army Canadian Ordnance Corps, before being commissioned. He died in August 1949.
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Medals to Brabant's Horse 3 weeks 4 days ago #98797

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Hello!

I didn't find (or I completely missed it) a thread for "Medals to the Brabant's Horse", so I start one with my group below.


I won this medal group on an auction - I went for it because I could look up the person on the mercantile marine medal and the name and number matched with the WW1 1914-15 Star:
discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7970679
Name: John Peter Anderson
Place of Birth: Copenhagen (Denmark)
Date of Birth: 1864
RS2 No: 398611

Medal bar:
- Queen's South Africa medal (CAPE COLONY, ORANGE FREE STATE): "23474 TPR. J.P.Anderson Braband. S. Horse." [engraved]
- WW1 1914-1918 medal: "JOHN P. ANDERSON" [impressed]
- Mercantile Marine medal: "JOHN P. ANDERSON" [impressed]
- WW1 1914-15 Star: "398611 JOHN P. ANDERSON MERCANTILE MARINE" [impressed]

It's a rather rough medal bar - perhaps created in a rush by Anderson?

The QSA is engraved over an erased impressed text.
He's a Dane and perhaps he or the engraver got the "Brabant's" to a "Braband. S.", since t is more silently pronounced in Danish (from what I've read)?

From the ribbon bars it looks like some medals are missing, like the KSA and the WW1 victory medal.
The QSA & KSA ribbon bar is just one ribbon for both medals.
The rank insignia I haven't researched yet. Perhaps it's a navy or mercantile marine rank insignia?

I've downloaded the WO 100/237 from the UK National Archives but I didn't find a match to the number 23474. The WO 100/237 documents are all dated rather late in the war and also after.
The best matching row was in WO 100/237-3, page 39:
2nd Brabant's Horse.
4062; Trooper; Anderson, J.P.; 2nd Battalion; clasps - Cape Colony, Orange Free State; Trans B.H. 1 6 00 [1900-06-01]
Document dated: Capetown, 16.11.02 [1902-11-16].

I also found Trooper 4062 on page 1:
www.angloboerwar.com/unit-information/so...abants-horse?start=2
X062; Anderson; J. Peter; Trooper; 18 3 00 [1900-03-18], II Res.; Dis.[?] 1/6/00 m.w.
The row above is booked in the database as:
Anderson; J Peter; 62; Trooper; 2nd Brabant's Horse. Source: Nominal roll in WO127
If the source is page 1 on the link above, then it should perhaps be number 4062 and not 62?

I am most interested in the other volumes about Brabant's Horse, but they are not yet digitized.
WO 126/6, Brabant's Horse A-B:
discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3322627
WO 127/3, Brabant's Horse:
discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6301881


So, after all this text, I am hoping that perhaps some of you could help me shed some light regarding the QSA medal?


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Stefan







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