Pitts | G | | | 6th Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Manchester Regiment |
Pitts | G | | | 6th Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Middlesex Regiment |
Pitts | George | | | Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | South African Constabulary |
Pitts | H G | | | 3rd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Northamptonshire Regiment |
Pitts | H J | | | A Division
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | South African Constabulary |
Pitts | H W | 6366 | Sapper | QSA issued to CRE Natal 2 Jan 1903.
QSA (5) CC OFS Tr SA01 SA02
TNA ref 157/94; 157/105 | Royal Engineers, Field Company, 37th |
Pitts | J | | | 1st Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Manchester Regiment |
Pitts | J | | | 3rd battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Grenadier Guards |
Pitts | J | | | B Division
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | South African Constabulary |
Pitts | J | | Private | MID LG: 8 February 1901, page: 931/2. Source: Lieutenant General White. 23 March 1900. Re: Ladysmith
This page contains all the London Gazette pages for the Boer War | Manchester Regiment |
Pitts | J M | | Able Seaman | QSA (0). Ref: 200.163.
Source: QSA medal rolls | HMS Monarch |
Pitts | James | 4858 | Private | QSA (3)
Source: List of QSAs with the clasp Elandslaagte | Manchester Regiment |
Pitts | James | 4858 | Private | QSA (3) Eland DoL Belf
Provisional list of recipients
Source: Ladysmith Siege Account and Medal Roll | Manchester Regiment |
Pitts | James | | Private | PITTS, J, Private, served in the South African War of 1899-1902, and was awarded the Victoria Cross [London Gazette, 26 July 1901]: 'J Pitts, Private, 1st Battalion The Manchester Regiment. Private R Scott and Private J Pitts. During the attack on Caesar's Camp, in Natal, on the 6th January 1900, these two men occupied a sangar, on the left of which all our men had been shot down and their positions occupied by Boers, and held their post for fifteen hours without food or water, all the time under an extremely heavy fire, keeping up their fire and a smart look-out, though the Boers occupied some sangars on their immediate left rear. Private Scott was wounded'. Private Pitts became a Lance-Corporal, Army Reserve.
Source: VC recipients (VC and DSO book) | Manchester Regiment |
Pitts | K | | | 1st Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Suffolk Regiment |
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