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Does anyone know where I could possibly find more information on my Great Grand Father above. The only evidence I have is his service medal.
There is reference to him signing up in King Williams Town - 4th December 1901.

Good Morning Mr. Brown.......

Here is what I was able to find in Find-my-Past...... It is the closes I can find......

First name(s) George
Last name Brown
Service number 144
Rank Lance-Corporal
Regiment District Mounted Rifles

Other regiments/units

Unit: served with King Williams Town District Mounted Troops, Rank: Trooper, Number: 22

Rolls WO100/247 page 161 and WO100/283 page 14
Literary references - The National Archives The National Archives WO127. Nominal rolls colonial units.

Notes: Junior. Berlin Troop

Hope this is of some help......

Mike

To avoid possible confusion..... The District Mounted Rifles was raised in 1899, and in 1900 it changed its name to Frontier Light Horse.

Except for the fact that both were raised in the Eastern Cape, the Boer War Frontier Light Horse had no direct connection with the regiment of this name that did such good service in the Eastern Cape Frontier Wars of 1877 - 1879, and Sekukuniland and the Zulu War in 1879. In the latter war, the FLH had many men killed in action at Hlobane, and two of its number were awarded the Victoria Cross in later actions. There probably was a deliberate implied link between the Boer War regiment and the FLH of the Zulu War, perhaps in anticipation (actually a vain hope) of similar glory.

Regards
Brett

Very nice, I should take a careful look through WO126/46-47 at Kew, if I were you, hopefully his original paper will have survived.

mclbrown wrote: Does anyone know where I could possibly find more information on my Great Grand Father above. The only evidence I have is his service medal.
There is reference to him signing up in King Williams Town - 4th December 1901.

Thank you Mike, Brett and Frank for the info and response.

It is a lovely medal and it is nice that it remains where it belongs, in your own family, it would have been earned the hard way, I am sure, please look after it.