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My late Grandfather left a presentation box with a medal.
Inscribed Arthur John Hattersley 4499 Pve 16th Lancers
Queen Victoria’s South Africa medal and four bars.
South Africa 1901
Belfast
Orange Free State
Cape Colony
In addition there was another”medal”. See photograph
Trying to further information on him

To me it looks like a sporting medallion that he could have won with the regiment...... My grandfather has a similar one for Boxing......

Also from the Cavalry List he is listed as follows.....

Hathersley, A.J., 4499, Private, 16th Lancers, Belfast, Cape Colony, OFS, 1901.
Severe Wound, Bloemfontein, 17/10/00. Invalided to England

Mike

Many thanks Mike for your reply. Can you direct me to the Cavalry list you refer? Re other medal cannot think what letters could refer to from a sporting perspective!

Hello Brizzer
For your records.





Your man passed away in 1938.

Dave....

Apologies, the site has had a few issues with uploads recently.
Sorry for the duplication. Looks like all documents have uploaded now.

Putting aside the Boer War, a “Glass Decorator” operating in 1899 in Camberwell with its College of Arts & Crafts opened in 1898 makes one wonder – btw does the C on the medal stand for Camberwell but my imagination is not up to accounting for the subsequent letters. In 1881 his father John was a “Glass writer” and in 1891 a “Glass Decorator”.

The 1911 Census found Arthur John married with one son and living in the Newington area of London and he had decided that was where he was born. He was working for the London Fire Brigade as a labourer in their engineering department. By 1921 he had moved to the Lewisham area of London, had three children and had now decided he was born in the Southwark area of London. He was still working for the London Fire Brigade in their Engineering Workshops but it is unclear whether he had raised his status above labourer.

Now if I plug C.F.S.S.I. into my friend Doctor Google it tells me I could do an online course to become a Certified Fire Suppression System Inspector, unfortunately the course would cost me $170. However, it has left me wondering what the other side of the medal looks like.

As Dave F says he passed away in 1938 so 1939 Register record. His probate says he was living in Sidcup, Kent but died in Woolwich Memorial Hospital.