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please find enclosed medal given to me by grandmother also pic of great grand father dont know name but father was stanley napier

Please provide the naming details on the rim of the medal

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This medal belonged to a Charles Eadly Napier, born 1874, from Weston Super Mare in Somerset. It is the Kings South Africa Medal - you need to be on the look out for the Queens South Africa Medal to the same man. He was awarded both for service in the Boer War as a Driver with the 20th Battery, Royal Field Artillery.

He joined the army in 1892 and his papers are available online through Find My Past at a cost. He saw service in the Cape Colony, Transvaal and Orange Free State and these are the clasps that would be on the Queens medal I referred to.

Charles also served in WWI and had the following children (his papers are available at a fee from Ancestry):

- Marguerite Annie born 23 may 1903 (Woolwich)
- Blanche born 23 February 1905
- Charles born 1 September 1907
- Stanley Edward born 23 October 1909
- Ellen born 10 December 1911
- Ethel Mary born 26 May 1914 and
- Harry Matthew born 3 July 1916

In 1911 (census) he was a Wine Butler in the Royal Artillery Mess at Woolwich

Regards

Rory

thank you so much for your time and research bit clearer now the other medal is with my aunt once again many thanks