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Some 42 medals were issued to the Isipingo Mounted Rifles.

Birkett, Corporal . SAGS (0)
Bower, Quartermaster . SAGS (0)
Buxton, Trooper . SAGS (0)
Cass, Trooper . SAGS (0). Medal returned
Chapman, Sergeant . SAGS (0)
Chapman, Trooper . SAGS (0)
Clarence, Trooper . SAGS (0). Medal returned
Clarkson, Trooper . SAGS (0)
Daddy, Trooper . SAGS (0)
Fayers, Trooper Q R. SAGS (0)
Fayers, Trooper W F. SAGS (0)
Gilbert, Trooper . SAGS (0)
Green, Trooper . SAGS (0)
Haines, Trumpeter . SAGS (0)
Hillary, Trooper . SAGS (0)
Hogard, Trooper . SAGS (0)
Human, Trooper M G. SAGS (1) 1878
Ingle, Trooper . SAGS (0)
Kenton, Trooper . SAGS (0)
Madore, Trooper . SAGS (0)
McDonald, Trooper . SAGS (0)
Munn, Trooper . SAGS (0)
Murray, Sergeant Major . SAGS (0)
Platt, Trooper . SAGS (0)
Prince, Trooper . SAGS (0)
Pugh, Trooper . SAGS (0)
Quested, Lieutenant W. SAGS (0)
Ramsay, Corporal W R. SAGS (1) 1879
Robinson, Trooper . SAGS (0)
Rockey, Quartermaster Sergeant . SAGS (0)
Royston, Trooper J B. SAGS (0)
Skinner, Trooper . SAGS (0)
Smart, Trooper . SAGS (0)
Smith, Trooper T. SAGS (0)
Smith, Trooper W. SAGS (0)
Stainbank, Trooper . SAGS (0)
Steel, Trooper . SAGS (0)
Steinbank, Captain D. SAGS (0)
Stewart, Trooper . SAGS (0)
Ward, Surgeon W W. SAGS (1) 1877-8
Westley, Trooper . SAGS (0)
Westley, Trooper A C. SAGS (0)


Picture courtesy of Noonan's

SAGS (0) (Tr. Q. R. Fayers. Isipingo Md. Rifles.)

A Note on Tpr. Q. R. Fayers
Isipingo Mounted Rifles
The Fayers family is well-recorded in the Isipingo area from the 1850s.
They were related to the original settler, James Fayers (Norfolk c.1822 - Greyville, Durban, 13. 7. 1904) and his wife, Mary Ann Johnson, who arrived in Natal in Dec. 1848 on the Gwalior and were first recorded in Isipingo in 1852. He had been based in Durban and traded in Zululand before apparently turning to farming in the Isipingo area.
His main business by 1860 and into the 1880s, however, was running the Royal Hotel in Isipingo and retailing wines and spirits. He retired from this c. 1885 and went to live in Camperdown, (60 km NW of Durban), where his wife died in 1903; he died at the residence of his daughter at Greyville in 1904.
His children were :
John Robert Fayers - born in Greenwich, UK, c. 1847 and travelled to Natal with his parents; died 14.3.1929 at Malonjeni, Dundee, Natal. His wife (from 1878) was Mary Isabella Wheeler (1858-1939). He had a number of professions early on - canteen-keeper at Umlaas in 1869, Poundmaster near Durban by 1873, woodcutter at Umbumbulu near Amanzimtoni by 1876 and waggoner at Isipingo by 1878; hotel keeper (perhaps with his father) at Isipingo by 1880. In 1882, he was living at Camperdown and still there in 1894. In (New) Guelderland by 1904.
Son - Herbert Wheeler Fayers, bn. 5th Sept. 1884 in Isipingo; died 6th Apr 1970, Dundee.
Dau. - Jeanette Rebecca Fayers, bn. 9th Oct. 1891, Camperdown; d. 18th May 1971, Newcastle, Natal.
Irwin James Fayers - (1849/50 Durban?) married Victoria Biddlecomb (1858-1914) in 1891. Worked as a woodcutter at Umbumbulu, 45km south-west of Durban, near Amanzimtoni (as did his brother, above); by 1903 a landowner at Isipingo.
William Thomas Fayers - (1852, Durban) Married in 1876 Annie Bailey of Isipingo; worked for her father as a barkeeper in Isipingo. Lived near Durban by 1904.
Rosa Rebecca Fayers - (1857, Isipingo). Married and lived in Isipingo. Twin of Albert, below.
Albert Edward Fayers - twin of the above. (1857/59, Isipingo). Farmed at St. Faith in 1880s and by 1904 living in Camperdown. Apparently married 6. 9. 1922 at Emoyeni, Hlabisa, Natal, to Emily Dunn (1880- ), dau. of the famous John Dunn.
Walter Francis Fayers - (Isipingo, 1859 - 6.7.1950 Port Rynie). He also married a Biddlecomb in 1886 and after her death, Jane Fynn. A butcher in Isipingo by 1883 and then (c. 1886-1894) farmed at St. Faith's. Living in Umzinto in 1904 and at the coastal town of Park Rynie when he died. Served in the Isipingo Mounted Rifles in the Zulu War, 1879.

There is no trace of any member of that family with the initials "Q.R.".
"W. F .Fayers" of the Isipingo family of Fayers (above) also served in the Isipingo M.R. in 1879 and received the medal with no clasp.
It is much more likely that the medal named to "Q. R. Fayers" is actually the medal to (his elder brother) "J. R. Fayers" [John Robert], the "Q. R." being a transcription error.
No-one else in the Fayers family fits the bill regarding age and location.

Re: Trooper G. W. Prince, Isipingo Mounted Rifles.
The medal without clasp to this man was sold at Spink on 24th April 2025 as Lot 250.

The recipient, Gersham William Prince, was born in Isipingo in 1854, baptised in St. Paul’s, Durban on 9th July.
He was the son of an early settler, John Prince, a blacksmith and farrier (bn. c.1818 in Avongoch, Denbs.; died 6 Dec 1873, Natal.) and his wife Anne Austin (Newington, Surrey, 1828 - 23 Jul 1881 Natal). They were married in Newington in Dec. 1847 and had moved to Natal by 1852 – one son (John Rowland) was born in London in 1850; their other nine children were born in Natal, the first being Minerva in 1852.

G. W. Prince was a blacksmith, like his father, and seems to have lived in Isipingo for many years.
He married Rosa Rebecca Fayers on 8 February 1877 in St James, Isipingo– the Fayers were another well-known family in Isipingo, some of whose menfolk served in the Isipingo Mounted Rifles and other colonial units around 1879.

There were divorce proceedings between them in 1904 – but Rosa is still listed as his wife when he died in 1917, though they appear to have lived apart.
His daughter Blanche (bn. Isipingo, 29.5.77) later ran a tea-rooms in Point Road, Durban.
He had at least one other child, a son Vivian, born in 1893 in Pietermartizburg.

Listed as a “shoe-smith” and blacksmith in his death notice, G. W. Prince died at “Mr. E. E. Redgrove’s store” in Hlabisa, on 1st June 1917, having lived for some few years before in “Crosley’s Store” in (what looks like) Macwoie or Macwore. No immovable property and estate under £300; no will.