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Good Evening Everyone......

This has shown up on ebay and to me it is a made up piece.....   The QSA looks like it was at one time broached and then the bars added......

Mike

Certainly not an example  that I would rush to buy!

Someone has misread the medal roll, his entitlement to Wepener is crossed out as he was a reliever not a defender.

Picture courtesy of Spink

QSA (3) CC Wep SA01 (Serjt: G. Ryan. Brabant's Horse.)

Provenance: Sotheby's, July 1982.

Served in the 1st Brabant's Horse. Enlisted 5 November 1899 in East London and posted to A Troop. Aged 21. Trade: Carpenter. Address: PO, East London. Discharged 4 June 1900. Also served CinCBG (22801) and Rand Rifles (not traced)

The QSA to Gordon Ryan just sold for £400.

Interestingly on the 1st Brabant's Horse roll he has the number 1 so was he the first man to join Brabant's Horse?

These are the enlistment dates for the Wepener men in Brabant's Horse

1 Ryan, G. 5 Nov (East London)
1 Moorcroft, A C. 16 Nov (Queenstown)
2 Flynn, V W. 7 Nov (Kei Road)
4 Stewart, J. 7 Nov (Toise River)
12 Prance, F. 17 Nov (Kei Road)
13 Walker, C. 8 Nov (KWT)
16 Wilson, J W. 8 Nov (KWT)
19 Gray, R C. 5 Oct (KWT)