| Friend | T | 6023 | Sapper | 1st Service Section. QSA and State clasps issued Jan 1902. Clasp SA01 issued 4 Apr 1906.
QSA (4) CC OFS Tr SA01
TNA ref 162/16; 162/20 | Royal Engineers, Volunteers, Devon and Somerset |
| Friend | T | | | 3rd battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Grenadier Guards |
| Friend | T | | Able Seaman | QSA (0). Ref: 181.781.
Source: QSA medal rolls | HMS Rambler |
| Friend | W | 7704 | Private | QSA (1) DoL
Provisional list of recipients
Source: Ladysmith Siege Account and Medal Roll | King's Royal Rifle Corps |
| Friend | W | 5391 | Private | 2nd Btn. Wounded at Ladysmith. 18 Feb 1900.
Source: Natal Field Force Casualty Roll, page 36 line 41 | (Queen's) Royal West Surrey Regiment |
| Friend | W | | | Source: WO100/284 | Port Elizabeth TG |
| Friend | W | | | 2nd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | South Wales Borderers |
| Friend | W | | | 2nd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | King's Royal Rifle Corps |
| Friend | W | | | 4th Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | King's Royal Rifle Corps |
| Friend | W | | | 4th Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | King's Royal Rifle Corps |
| Friend | W | | | 2nd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | King's Royal Rifle Corps |
| Friend | W | 25682 | Lance Corporal | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (0). Born in Sandhurst, Berkshire, the son of a Quarter-Master Sergeant and Engineer Clerk, and enlisted in the Royal Engineers as a boy recruit at Edinburgh in April 1891, aged 15 years. Appointed a Bugler in May of the following year, and advanced to Lance-Corporal in September 1895, he served in Rhodesia in 43rd Company, R. E. in July to September 1896, his C. O., Captain A. E. Haynes, being killed in action in the same period. Returning to the U. K. via a posting in Mauritius in October 1898, after being advanced to 2nd Corporal, Friend was discharged as medically unfit at Chatham in the following year, his condition partly being attributable 'to the privatations he underwent whilst on active service.He was on active service in Mashonaland for 84 days, during which time he had to sleep in the open air and often in wet clothes.He was on field rations during this time, when he suffered from dysentery.’ BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (25682 Lce. Corpl. W. Friend, 43 Co. R. E.). DNW June 2008 £410.
Source: BSACM rolls | Royal Engineers |
| Friend | W H | | Ship's Steward Assistant | QSA (0). Ref: 341.417.
Source: QSA medal rolls | HMS Thetis |
| Friend | W H | | | Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | South African Constabulary |
| Friend | William | 2260 | Trooper | Served in 1st KFS. Joined Salisbury 1 Apr 02 Discharged 26 May 02 medically unfit Pietermaritzburg
Source: Nominal roll in WO127 | Kitchener's Fighting Scouts |
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