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QSA (5) Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (1347 Qr:-Mr:-Serjt: W. Ronnie. Pr Alf: Vol: Gds:),

M&E say 'C. J. Walton of Prince Alfred’s Volunteer Guards Mounted Infantry is confirmed on the medal roll.'

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QSA (3) Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (1507 L. Cpl. E. H. Emery. Prince Alf: Vol: Gd:);
1914-15 Star (Pte E. H. Emery. 1st Rhodn. Rgt.);
British War and Bilingual Victory Medals with MID (L/Cpl. E.H. Emery. S.A.S.)

Described as:

Together with South African Forces bilingual cap badge and Bailey’s South African Sharpshooters badge, extremely rare to this latter unit.

M.i.D.: London Gazette: 1 June 1917 (Haig’s Despatch)

Lance Corporal Edward H. Emery of Bulawayo, Rhodesia, was born c. 1877, and served in South Africa during the Second Anglo-Boer War with the Steynsburg Town Guard and Prince Alfred’s Volunteer Guard. His name is listed on the roll (although Orange Free State and Transvaal clasps are currently unconfirmed). During the Great War he saw early service with the 1st Battalion, Rhodesia Regiment, in the German South West Africa Campaign, but soon afterwards he applied for and passed the rigorous testing required to join the elite Bailey’s South African Sharpshooters on 20 April 1916. This small, handpicked group of marksmen and big-game hunters were selected to form a crack unit of snipers for the Western Front, in order to combat their German counterparts who had hitherto been wreaking havoc along the front lines. One of just 24 men, in total, selected to serve in this unit, Emery and his fellow snipers were reputed to have accounted for over 3000 German casualties. For this service, Emery received an M.i.D. on 1 June 1917, and was later discharged in the U.K. on 10 October 1918 as ‘permanently medically unfit’ (presumably from injury or illness), and returned to Cape Town on 11 July 1919 aboard H.M.T. Carisbrook Castle.

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QSA (3) Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (818 Pte A.M. Ramsden. Prince Alf: Vol: Gds:);
KSA (2) (818 Pte A. M. Ramsden, P.A.V.G.).

M&E say 'Artur Morgan Ramsden of Prince Alfred’s Volunteer Guard, is confirmed on the medal rolls.'