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Ian,

The article did continue but was less relevant so I will leave the remainder to be enjoyed by the JO'D fan club!

Best wishes
David

Hi

I also know nothing about the unit, except that, taking account returned medals and medals issued off rolls of other units, there are only approximately 30 QSA's named to the EBS.

Lt Bredin earned his bars serving with Driscoll's Scouts

Henk

This is my entry for Lt Bredin in the Wepener book:

Bredin, Lieutenant John Dawson Hutchinson, Elliot Border Scouts | QSA (2) CC Wep | Also served XMR (SM 51) and DrSc (1274) 19 March 1900 to 8 May 1900. Captain and commanding officer of the Xalanga Border Mounted Rifle Club in 1907. Medal returned 5 January 1909 and reissued 16 June 1922. Applied for a grant to fence his farm Umgwalana Nek in Cala in 1902. Sheep Inspector in 1913. Estate details in the Pietermaritzburg Archives: 969/1945. | Ref: 245p38, 281p58, 278p298

The district of Elliot is some way from the border with the OFS so like the neighbouring Wodehouse Yeomanry , they probably patrolled the district's borders. Their entitlement to the CC clasps is crossed through on the roll signifying that they did not leave Cape Colony.



Like Lt Bredin's QSA, several men also served in Driscoll's Scouts and there were also medals issued from the nearby Indwe as well as Cala Town Guards and Dordrecht DVG.

The medal roll in WO100/281 states that they were 'called out for active military duty against the enemy and
actually engaged with the enemy’.

The Elliot Border Scouts is one of several scouting units not mentioned by Tylden:

Beddy's Scouts. Raised at Haenertsburg in 1900 and operated in the northern Transvaal. (Tylden. P 41)
Border Scouts. Raised at Upington in May 1900. Coloured troops only. (Tylden. P 44)
Colonial Scouts. Raised at Pietermaritzburg in November 1899. Had five squadrons. (Tylden. P 68)
Dennison's Scouts. Raised at Vryburg in September 1900. Saw action in the western Transvaal. (Tylden. P 72)
Driscoll's Scouts. Raised for service and saw action at the siege of Wepener. (Tylden. P 74)
Elliot's Border Scouts. Raised and served in the Eastern Cape.
French's Scouts. Raised and served in the Cape province in 1899. (Tylden. P 85)
Gatacre's Scouts. Raised in the Eastern Cape in 1899. (Tylden. P 86)
Imperial Yeomanry Scouts. Raised in 1900. Served in the Transvaal. (Tylden. P 96)
Kitchener's Fighting Scouts. Raised in December 1900. Consisted of two regiments. (Tylden. P 105)
Le Gros Scouts. Raised in 1899 at Colesburg. (Tylden. P 107)
McLean's Scouts. Raised in 1901 in the eastern Cape. (Tylden. P 110)
Menne's Scouts. Raised in Natal as part of the Colonial Scouts and operated in the Eastern Transvaal.
Morley's Scouts. Raised in the eastern Transvaal in 1901. (Tylden. P 115)
Struben's Scouts. Raised in 1900 and attached to 11 Division of the British Army. (Tylden. P 188)
Tempest's Scouts. Raised in June 1901 and served with 17th Bde British Army in north east OFS Brandwater basin.
Warren”s Scouts. Raised in Griqualand West in 1900.
Warwick's Scouts. Raised in 1900 and served with British General Methuen in the Cape.

But this list also omits the Orange River Scouts , Montmorency's Scouts , Hannay's, Namaqualand, Rundle's and Tucker's.

Source: www.freewebs.com/saintcorps/

A QSA named to Elliot Border Scouts but difficult to read.