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WelshJSource: QSA and KSA medal rollsNo 10 Mountain Battery, RGA
WelshJ 5765Private1st Btn. Slightly wounded at Colenso. 15 Dec 1899.
Source: Natal Field Force Casualty Roll, page 121 line 26		Border Regiment
WelshJ2nd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls		King's Royal Rifle Corps
WelshJ4th Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls		King's Royal Rifle Corps
WelshJ33319Lance Corporal2nd Battalion
Demise: Died of disease 16 Dec 1901
Place: Middelburg
Source: In Memoriam by S Watt		Scottish Horse
WelshJ H7000Sergeant MajorD.C.M. London Gazette 27 September 1901 (Army Order 15/02). James Henry Welsh was born in Leamington, Warwickshire and enlisted in the 10th Hussars in June 1871, aged 20 years. Having served in the East Indies 1873-75, he was advanced to Corporal in September 1878 and was re-embarked for India in the same year, and was subsequently employed with his regiment in the Second Afghan War. Welsh returned to the U.K. in May 1881, was advanced to Sergeant in the following year, and transferred to the Permanent Staff of the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars in September 1884. Having then been awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in 1889, and gained further promotion to Troop Sergeant-Major, he was discharged in March 1893. Soon after the advent of hostilities in South Africa, Welsh - aged 47 years - attested for the Imperial Yeomanry, and was attached to the 44th Company, 12th Battalion on his arrival in South Africa in February 1900. Actively engaged in that theatre of war until returning home in August 1902, he was mentioned in despatches by Lord Roberts and awarded the D.C.M. At the time of his discharge, he was serving as a Sergeant-Major in the 29th Company, 9th Battalion. Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (7000 Serjt.-Maj. J. H. Welsh, 12 Imp. Yeo.); Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (1331 Corpl., 10th Rl. Hussars); Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (R. S. Major, 44th Coy. 12th Impl. Yeo.), single initial ‘J.'; King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (7000 R. Serjt. Maj., I.Y.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R. (1331 Sergt., 10th Hussars). DNW Dec 07 £3,200
Source: DCM recipients		12th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry
WelshJ H1st Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls		Devonshire Regiment
WelshJ HSergeant MajorMID LG: 10 September 1901, page: 5965. Source: Field Marshal Roberts. 4 September 1901. Re: General mentions
This page contains all the London Gazette pages for the Boer War		Imperial Yeomanry
WelshJ JSource: QSA and KSA medal rollsNew Zealand, 10th Contingent
WelshJames8661GunnerQSA (2)
Source: List of QSAs with the clasp Defence of Kimberley		Royal Garrison Artillery
WelshJamesSource: WO100/146No 10 Mountain Battery, RGA
WelshJames2nd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls		Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
WelshJamesSource: QSA and KSA medal rollsNo 10 Mountain Battery, RGA
WelshJames Cosmo GordonLieutenant1st Battalion
Source: QSA Medal Rolls		Scottish Horse
WelshJames Cosmo GordonLieutenantServed 01 May 01 to 07 Jul 02. Resigned, A.O. 345 08/06/1901
Source: Nominal roll in WO127		Scottish Horse
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