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Nice pair of medals to 8 Tpr J.E. Kaufmann, Rundle Scouts. 1935 Jubilee confirmed on SA roll, listed as Public Servant.

John Ernest Kaufmann is on the QSA roll of the Tembuland Mounted Rifle Club and listed as having transferred to Rundle Scouts on 17 Jul 1900. The Rundle Scouts roll provided on this website has him listed as joining on 30 Jul 1900 and discharged 12 Feb 1901. The Rundle Scout QSA roll confirms the Cape Colony and Orange Free State clasps and additional service with the Umtata T.G. and Tembuland F.F. The Supplimantal QSA roll confirms the South Africa 1901 clasp.

Father to Capt G.H. Kaufman, DFC ('43), MID ('42), KIA 18 Jul 44, shot down by flak over Normandy in his Typhoon with 182 RAF, previously with 4 SAAF in Africa and Italy.

1Ranger
Well done with that one. In over 40 years of being interested in the QSA, yours is the first example of which I have heard.
Regards
IL.

Here is the naming for everyone's viewing.

1Ranger,

What a lovely pair of medals. Excellent photographs too.

Many thanks
David

Picture courtesy of Morton and Eden

QSA (2) Cape Colony, Orange Free State (18 Tpr: H. C. Francis. Rundle’s Scouts.)

M&E say 'Henry Charles Francis of Rundle’s Scouts is confirmed on the medal roll; he additionally served with Cape Police (No. 324) and the Dordrecht District Town Guard (No. 422).'

Henry Charles Francis joined Rundle's Scouts on 30 July 1900 and was discharged on 12 February 1901.

He also served in the CP D1 (1232 Sergeant) from 11 October 1899 to 19 May 1900, Dordrecht DVG (442) between 28 February and 5 December 1901 and Cawood's Squadron, CCF, in 1902.

Entitled to SA01 and SA02 from the Supplementary roll of the CCF (WO100/239p289).

There are a few men of this name, in Hopetown and Bloemfontein, after the Boer War but nothing to link them to this Henry Charles.

Another image of the unit naming but nowhere near as clear as 1Rangers's earlier image.